While as developers I am willing to bet we spend alot of time inside dealing with the mundane bits of modern business development. I try my best to avoid the Big Blue Room as I tend to find it too brightly lit or just too warm.
But there are those moments that catch you and you are reminded that you are human. A sunset, clouds, fog in the field on an early morning (or very late night, depending how the code turned out). And at those moments, you feel that child-like wonder that you approached all of reality with once. And if that moment is the right moment, it goes beyond that feeling from youth, and takes on a timeless quality and you feel a connection to all that have come before you and looked at the night sky.
So take a moment tonite, go into the Big Black Room, look up and marvel at the clockwork wonders that universe has to serve up.
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About Jonathan Bates
Jonathan Bates is the latest President of the Jacksonville Developers User Group.
He has had a long and storied path on the way to I.T. work. At one point, Jonathan had a near Neo-Luddite position about computers, believing them at worst to be the means to humanity's eventual slavery and at best tools for general evil. After landing a job powered by such advanced technologies as Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and MS Access, Jonathan began to change his opinion on computers. He began to believe that they might be for more than just improving the display and sound qualities on his Laserdisc movies. In time, he came to see that computers were nothing more than tools, not much different then a hammer (though not as good to drive nails with).
Jonathan Bates is an industry-certified and proven developer and trainer, facilitating the transfer of knowledge from conceptual client request to delivered and implemented solution. Jonathan enjoys sharing his knowledge and understanding about development principals with like-minded people. You can generally find him enjoying good company discussing his personal Unified Theory and how programming can be used to describe it. And if you can't find him, drop him a line with a time and place and he'll find you.
Contact him at jonathan.bates@batener.org.