[食指飞动]读The.Passionate.Programmer[简介篇]

My ebook： The.Passionate.Programmer_Creating.a.Remarkable.Career.in.Software.Development[2009][EN][PDF]

本书是阿三作品，致力于引导程序员如何获得一个Remarkable职业生涯。有些观点值得一看，尤其适合我这种徘徊在职业重要关口的人。

Piaoger决定将关键部分翻译翻译，学学英语，也可以打发点时间。

[注:在做完了第一部分比较之后，突然发现已经有人翻译了这本书，而且号称翻译质量还不错。书名有些山寨：我编程，我快乐。我的读并译还需要继续吗，或者干脆花点钱买本书？？？？]

>> 公司为什么会雇佣你？

Software is a business. As software developers,we are businesspeople. Our companies don’t employ us because they love us. They never have, and they never will. That’s not the job of a business. Businesses don’t exist so we can have a place to go every day. The purpose of a business is to make money. To excel at a company, you’re going to have to understand how you fit into the business’s plan to make money.

As we’ll explore later, keeping you employed costs your company a significant amount of money. Your company is investing in you. Your challenge is to become an obviously good investment. You will start to judge your own performance in terms of the business value you bring to the organization or customer who is employing you.

软件是一种商业。作为软件开发人员，我们就是商人。我们的公司不会因为爱我们才雇佣我们。以前未曾有，将来也不会有。这不是商业的任务。商业不是为了我们能有个地方上班而存在。商业的目的是“Make Money”。要想在一个公司鹤立鸡群，你就不得不了解你是如何适应于为了赚钱的商业计划。

公司雇佣你花了一大笔钱。你的公司是在对你投资。你的任务在于变成把它变成一笔好的投资。你要开始判断自己能带给机构或者客户的商业价值上的效率。

Think of your career as if it is the life cycle of a product that you are creating. That product is made up of you and your skills. In this book, we’ll look at four facets that a business must focus on when designing, manufacturing, and selling a product. And we’ll see how these four facets can be applied to our careers:
• Choose your market.

Pick the technologies and the business domains you focus on consciously and deliberately. How do you balance risk and reward?How do supply and demand factor into the decision?
• Invest in your product.

Your knowledge and skills are the cornerstone of your product. Properly investing in them is a critical part of making yourself marketable. Simply knowing howto program in Visual Basic or Java isn’t good enough anymore. What other skills might you need in the new economy?
• Execute.

Simply having employees with a strong set of skills does not pay off for a company. The employees have to deliver. How do you keep up the delivery pace without driving yourself into the dirt? How do you know you’re delivering the right value for the company?
• Market!

The best product in history will not actually get purchased if nobody knows it exists. How do you get find recognition in both your company and the industry as a whole without “sucking up”?

把你的职业看作产品的生命周期。这个产品由你的技能所构成。在这本书里，我们将着眼于一个商业在设计、制造和出售产品商业所必需关注的四个方面。我们还会看到这四个方面将如何应用于我们的职业：

•选择市场

慎重选取你所关注的技术和商业领域（业务范围）。你能怎样平衡风险与回报？供需关系会如何影响决定？

•投资

你的知识与技能是产品的基石。适当投资于它们是让你的产品具有市场竞争力的重要因素。仅仅学点什么VB或Java已经不够用了。那么在新的经济中，你还需要学点什么新东西

•执行

仅仅拥有很强技能的雇员并不会让公司的到回报。员工们必须交付。如何保持交付的步伐而不会让你灰土土脸？或者你知道你是否向公司交付了正确的价值。

•市场

酒香也怕巷子深。你怎么样才能无需拍马屁也能获得公司和行业的认可。

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Piaoger：

本书中，Chad认为软件开发属于商业计划中的一个部分，而软件开发者则是执行商业计划的一分子。同样，公司聘用你，绝不是在做慈善事业，也不是为了提供一个地方让你每天都能去上上班。在某种程度上讲，公司聘用一个人，也是在投资，那么被投资的这个人就应该表现出他投资的价值。Chad将职业比对于一个产品的生命周期，并着眼于市场选择、投资、执行和市场四个方面，分析了一个程序员如何才能拥有一段可圈可点的职业生涯。

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