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Coders hack Microsoft website? They need to learn DNS...

I was amused at Viral's take on the fact that we'd hacked our own website the other day with the Live to Code ethic that developers seem to embrace so much.  More so, as I recently met Josh at our Technical conference this year.  Josh had admired my Women in Technology sticker, and gave me one of his Live to code, code to live stickers (like this one) in exchange for one of my Women in Technology stickers like the one on my laptop. 

CodeToLive_black_email

 

His mission (apart from coding of course) is to try to get more women into IT in the US as they can't seem to attract enough female developers into his team.

 

 

 

Girls, you'd like Josh.  He looks like someone who would be totally at home on a Harley, or building a custom bike, or tinkering around in his garage, or blogging, or writing code, or even out hiking with some large dogs. He's a really nice guy too - even though he is obsessed with developing and coding  (I wonder if he has a tattoo about it?)

But I reckon that instead of a hack, it was just a DNS mistake - and that's where coders need the infrastructure guys to help out.

"Live for Infrastructure.  Infrastructure for life"

It just doesn't sound the same does it?...

Published Friday, May 09, 2008 9:49 PM by Eileen_Brown
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:28 AM by Dave Oliver

# re: Coders hack Microsoft website? They need to learn DNS...

Developers write code.

Infrastructers put together environments.

Architects make blueprints.

There is a pretty big gap between all, which is often filled by someone stepping outside of their stereotypical role as talking isn't often enough because the mindsets get in the way. However sometimes PMA is all you need but as problems get more complex this gets stretched.

The answers is standardisation in the form of abstractions and captured repeatable knowledge, like patterns for instance. However I've found it's easy to write the business case for these things but it's a pain in the neck to make them, once done it really is a god send and worth the money.

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