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Very sad that the author aspires to be Martin Fowler. Fowler is an adept populariser of other people's ideas, and he does that as marketing effort for Thought W
by osullivj 10y ago
Very sad that the author aspires to be Martin Fowler. Fowler is an adept populariser of other people's ideas, and he does that as marketing effort for Thought Works. AFAIK he has not originated any innovation over the last twenty years, whether it be patterns, enterprise architecture, microservices, generators, refactoring or agile. Basically he's a corporate shill trolling round the conference circuit drumming up consulting gigs for Thought Works by banging on about the latest trend. If you want to aspire to be someone in the software world how about Brad Cox, Steve Wozniak, Guido, Carmack, or Kay, Ingalls and Goldberg?
- jimmcslim 10y agoAs a former "Thoughtworker" for a few years in the earlier part of my career, a cynical side of me is inclined to agree with you. A more generous interpretation however may be to compare him to a medieval bard, who sings us tales of battles fought in far away lands (aka design patterns? technology trends? shrug) so that we mere peasants can be more educated about the wider world?
- Chris2048 10y agoI don't see anything wrong with picking up ideas like that and promoting them, if he didn't rename so many of them...
- osullivj 10y agoAnd make it a little clearer that they aren't his ideas, so noobs don't get the wrong impression.
- mlvljr 10y agoAnd gramma Liskov :)