Jan172009
yKAP: Bug Tracking is not unlike sweet-talking girls!
Filed under living by 086 at 1:03 pm on Jan 17 2009
Dude, for the life of me I’m telling you beforehand: I can’t really program my way out of a cardboard box. I’ve always been much into computers, but when it comes to programming, I’ve never been really able to grasp the principle of effective human-computer communication. Which is actually a shame; last night I went out to grab a couple of beers with two buddies – both of whom are software engineers, and they kept talking about this cool new Issue Management software called yKAP (your kind attention please) that’s used for tracking down errors while programming.
Well, like I said I don’t really understand much about programming, but all the while I’m pretty good with analogies. I don’t know if that was possibly an effect from the beer buzz, but while my buddies kept going on about that Bug Tracking Software, and discussing its innovations and advantages as an Issue Tracking System… I got this feeling that writing computer code is not so different from picking up a girl at bars. You just gotta be able to use the right lines to get your message across, while watching for possible contradictions and screw-ups in your sweet-talking.
Yeah, once you really think about it, programming a computer is kind of like trying to sweet-talk a girl into getting all over you. I kept telling that to my buddies, but they seemed to think it’s a dumb idea. Myself, I just think those guys don’t know that much about girls. Hey, whatever… you know what? I should really ask them to introduce me to a cute geeky young lady who will be sweet on my crazy analogies. Maybe she’d teach me a thing or two about coding, as well!
