29 Nov 07 Programmer VS Manager

Ada banyak issue yang berkembang disekitar dua bidang pekerjaan ini, secara umum yg terjadi di dalam dunia proffesional perusahaan selalu memandang jenjang karir yang umum adalah mengarah ke sisi manajerial, tetapi pada kenyataannya tidak semua kasus bisa diperlakukan seoerti itu.

Ada banyak kejadian diperusahaan bila programmer mereka sudah cukup lama membuktikan bahwa dia sudah bekerja dengan baik di job descnya maka perusahaan akan memberikan jenjang karir ke level manajerial, singkat cerita seorang “core programmer” mendapat promosi untuk mengatur kinerja programmer2x lainnya.

Secara teori umum, seorang individu yg mempunya kemampuan belajar yg baik akan dapat menguasia teori2x dasar managerial dengan mudah dan kemudian melakukan pekerjaanya dangan baik, akan tetapi apakah kemudian menjadi barometer kepuasan dia dengan kenaikan posisi kemanagerial, itu lain kasus jadinya

Ini saya kutip dari cerita yang saya baca dr sbuah blog “Wide vs Deep”, Teorinya seorang manager akan melakukan pekerjaannya secara “dangkal tapi luas” artinya manager harus menangani banyak macam pekerjaan dan harus bisa menyelesaikannya tanpa haru mendalami unsur teknisnya secara detail, pemahaman teknisnya cukup untuk memahami situasi masalah saja, sedangkan seorang programmer melakukan pekerjaanya secara “sempit dan dalam”, bahkan programer harus mengusai teknis sampa ke titik koma dari teorinya agar dia dapat menyelesaikan tugasnya dengan baik.

Akhirnya pertanyaanya akan kembali ke individu yang melakukan pekerjaan itu “What type of a guy u are?”, seorang programmer biasanya tipe pekerja yang detail dan sengan merunut semuanya sampai ke titik koma nya, bagaimana jadinya apabila programmer di promosikan majadi manager…?

Ada beberapa macam hasil yang timbul dari kasus ini, dari kasus yang saya baca malah timbul kejadian lucu si manajer minta diturunkan kembali menjadi programmer, bukan karena dia tidak mampu melakukan pekerjaanya sebagai manajer tapi semata mata karena dia tidak menyenagi pekerjaannya, ada kejadian yang saya lihat malah agak merugikan adalah ketika si programmer bisa menyesuaikan dirinya dengan pekerjaan manajerial dia harus kehilangan sebagian kemammpuannya sebagai seorang programmer, tidak maslah bila dia memang memaklumi hal itu tapi apa bila pekerjaanya sebagai programmer adalah kebanggaannya maka akan timbul masalah dari hal itu.

Moral of the story, tidak semua jejang karir adalah beralih ke posisi managerial, menurut saya jenjang dibuat untuk memuaskan pekerja dalam kehidupan berkarirnya tapi bila kenaikan itu menghilangkan “Passion” nya dalam bekerja maka artinya harus ada yg dipikirkan kembali.

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27 Nov 07 Programmer are rude…???

Ini gw quote dr bacaan gw di internet….

Programmers are just rude, HA! But at least now I know why.
Why programmers are generally rude:

1. Because most other people are stupid!

Wheww, I am glad I got that off my chest. Lets face it, people who try to get coders to do things for them don’t know what the hell they really want to begin with. It is only after many hours of pouring over O’Reilly books, and typing away in a text editor, that you find out what they really want, and usually it is not included, or not at all what you hacked out and packaged.

2. Mountain Dew, Jolt Cola, Pork Rinds and Day-old Pizza!

Seriously, programmers should take better care of themselves. They are generally on call 24-7-365, so they are up all night, then the company demands them to perform during the day. “What?! The coder came in late to work AGAIN!”. Seriously some of you bosses out there need to chill a little bit. Its amazing that programmers can go home, they get on the Internet, and guess what they are doing? Looking up solutions to your friggin business problems. Get off their back, and realize they need the full 8-hours of sleep also. Not that they would actually get it. Oh ya, this goes back to #1 somewhat. If your programmer is on call 24-7 DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT call them at 2:00am and ask them to come back in because you don’t have the friggin sense to configure your own outlook account! Now if the company is going down in flames because your Enterprise System is falling down, that is a different story.

3. Coders are anti-social.

Actually this is a misnomer. Coders aren’t really anti-social, but if they are working on a problem the last thing they want to do is be interrupted for some trivial bullshit. Now, c’mon, as a business person, if you are working on a financial prospectus and you can’t seem to get the numbers to come out right, (I.E. Enron) do you really want your wife/husband/sig. O calling you asking what you would like for dinner, and you have to make the decision ‘RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW!’ ? Of course not! So do not ask your coder to fix a fax machine when he is coding in some new obscure language. Just leave him alone, or send an email stating that ‘whenever he has time…..’ .

4. Coders are under-appreciated!

Now seriously when was the last time you told your programmer that his/her services were appreciated? Now I am not talking about sitting around a campfire holding hands singing ‘Kum-by-Ya’. All I am talking about is just a simple reminder that you realize the coder is a valuable part of the team, and that you understand/empathize/sympathize with his/her time/struggles/problems with bosses/secretaries/mail-room clerks/and other people who ask usual silly/stupid/inane/ questions. A little harsh here but seriously, if you have to ask what a browser is, then you have real problems, don’t expect your coder to be your own private tutor. Go find the answers out for yourself.

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27 Nov 07 Mimpi yang aneh…

windowslivewriteryouneedtohaveasecurityprograminplacebefo-c848security-dreaming42 Semalem gw koq mimpi nya nggak banget yak…., ceritanya sedang di tempat client lagi benerin javascript haduhh ini artinya apa ya…, lucunya nya gw dah sampe kebangun dua kali tp tetep bersambung ck ck ck
Mungkin artinya tuh :
1. Gw dah perlu liburan
2. Makanya kalo punya pe er jangan di tunda tunda
3. Apa emang gw sgitu bodohnya dengan Javascripting yak wakaka…

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26 Nov 07 Respect in a workplace….

The workplace is a very stressful area that we spend a lot of our time in. A lot of the time more than a third of our waking hours are spent working under stressful conditions. Being in the IT department is more stressful than most as it is our job to solve problems and that is what we hear all day and every day. Being constantly bombarded with negative impacts will wear out anyone. No matter how strong they are. That is why there is such a high burnout rate amongst the IT crowd.

This can be alleviated somewhat by the way that people treat each other. The workplace is a place of business and not a family living room. In a family home, ie. your own home, emotions are not hidden. Both good and bad are displayed for all to see. Occasionally, no matter how much we love our closest and dearest to our hearts, we treat them with disrespect, scorn and anger tantrums. These outbursts (usually as a result of work stress) are quickly forgotten, ruffled feathers are smoothed over and bridges rebuilt.

This method of close interaction doesn’t fit well in the workplace. The workplace has a much larger mix of emotional types and a snide comment by one person can and usually is taken as a full blown insult resulting in a state of war that is very hard to resolve peacefully, if at all. It is very important that everyone treat everyone else with respect no matter who is talking to who. In a workplace everyone has a specific job to do and they are all equally as important. From the CEO to the Janitor everyone needs to maintain a certain standard of interpersonal interaction. If this is not maintained then workplace stress rises, moral drops and the fabric of the workplace starts to unravel like Auntie Mays home knitted woolen jumper.

So if you are reading this (and I am a hundred percent sure you are be very aware of how you interact with the people around you. It can make all the difference between a meal ticket and the handout line.