Oracle Magazine, May/June 2018
DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY ORACLE MAGAZINE MAY JUNE 2018 33 why our chattering inner critic dozes off Of course we cant depend on being in the zone all the time but we can set up triggers to get ourselves there faster and stay there longer Welcome to my new column for Oracle Magazine on developer productivity where Ill focus on how developers in the increasingly fragmented and fast moving world of technology can find flow This first iteration focuses on insights from Sebastian Daschner a Munich based Java consultant and Oracle Developer Champion who is scheduled to present tips for developer productivity at multiple Oracle Code 2018 events LET COMPUTERS DO THE STUPID THINGS Developers have to become automation hackers says Daschner They should reflect on what they are doing whenever they open up this window or change that function and instead trigger a script or use keyboard shortcuts rather than the mouse Use the fact that the computer can do stupid things really well Among computer programmers those who automate their most mundane chores can become hallway legends Daschner mentions the guy who wrote scripts to brew coffee at exactly the right time based on how long it took to walk from his cubicle to the break room and to send a random excuse home to his spouse if he was logged in late at work Indeed many of the automation aspects of DevOps come from the same motivation to hand the mundane to computers The process of checking in code running a suite of tests and integrating the new elements into the existing build not to mention continuously deploying and maintaining code in production were inspired because the process is dull and repeatable especially for developers And with Oracles latest self driving self securing self repairing cloud capabilities the options for automating such work will only grow
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