temporaneità

My doubts are gone and it’s clear to me that I’ve got a problem with violence and, more generally, with strong emotions: I’m not sure if the recent birth of my son is connected to it, still it’s a few months that I haven’t been able to watch movies anymore (how could I find a good one without a bit of violence in it?). As I wrote, my doubts disappeared while reading Drown, a ten story anthology of Junot Díaz, a Dominican-American writer. In the first of them, a boy smashes a glass bottle on the head of another kid: for our “modern” standards, that’s even not so remarkable! :) Well, I’ve spent the rest of the afternoon thinking about it.
However, Dìaz is widely known as a gifted writer with an original prose and a sad humor: perhaps the short story I liked most is “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie”; half a weekend is enough to read the whole thing.

This is my 15th year in ICT business: still, I have many, perhaps too many, things to learn. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know is a book that collects words of wisdom from experts of our field and reading their experiences brings to my mind quite a number of past working events. Complexity, hard work and challenging problems are hiding in the background of these 97 short stories. I learnt from them something useful I should add to my professional tool bag. Of course I won’t tell you which of the 97 hints I’d better follow during my next project: read the book and discover by yourself the ones that suit you most. :)