No. of Recommendations: 14
If a non software engineer could create a personal word processor and task management app so easily, I believe software giants like Microsoft, Adobe, CRM et al are in serious trouble.
I was also quite impressed with the article. More specifically, his accomplishment which the article describes, and the surprising power of the tools he used.
But FWIW, he's not exactly a techno-peasant.
Before joining the FT, he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard studying artificial intelligence and a senior writer at FiveThirtyEight. Roeder holds a PhD in economics with a focus on game theory ...
Most "non software engineers" would not comment "I was also confronted as any craftsperson should be by the minutiae of my tools — technicalities like stream parsing, dirty state tracking, debouncing and atomicity.
Jim
