i'm more a software assembler than a programmer
RE: this tweet of mine.
i'm more of a software assembler than a programmer.
— James Sconfitto (@jugglingnutcase) October 23, 2012
Today i found a library called fastclick that will override the typical click events on modern mobile browsers, making touch events on a mobile browser feel (almost) imperceptibly faster. Including it into the project was a breeze, i just stacked it onto the list of other cool javascript libraries i use.
In going through this process time and time again, i'm realizing that many of my development efforts, now that i have a shipped web app embedded in our main product, are spent perusing open source libraries on github searching for ideas and new utilities to embed into my projects.
Yes i still think about new features to add, and dream up better designs and interactions, but i also spend a lot of time discovering and re-aligning different Lego blocks into something that looks and works better.
My success as an engineer in the software world will hinge, more and more, on my ability to find and use previously invented wheels so i can move on to making new and better mousetraps ;)