“Listen to your code. It will offer suggestions. It will push back. It will tell you where the pitfalls reside. It will suggest new ways to do things. It will help you stick to a model of less software.”
~ 37signals
Whenever I have Internet access, I always surf and click random links just to get a look at both design and content. Yes, I do stumble upon sites that are paying much attention to catering the ever exploited “physical need” of both men and women but that is not my point (hahaha!). “Then what are you even talkin’ about?”, you might ask for which I’ll answer by saying, “It’s all about keeping it real.”
Now that I have your full attention through the art of confusing an audience and basically saying things that made no sense, I can now express my purpose which is *”drum roll please!* plugging this cute little black book entitled Getting Real by 37signals. Don’t worry, I’ll explain what I think of the content and intentions of the said book first before I come spreading the link of the site OR you can just scroll down and click the link. 
There are three things, that I personally believe which were tackled briefly in the book, you have to consider if you are planning to venture into the IT industry through programming or developing software — Passion, Dedication, and Amount of coffee you have to drink in a day.
Passion. If you are sixteen or older, you know what this word means but for the sake of my need to talk and talk, in this case type and type, passion is an emotion, an intense feeling or desire towards something. Coding is not fun, well for me but growing number of people are learning to do it and the result of such is an unlimited amount of software, open source of course, available on line (yey!). I don’t expect 2 to 3 years of my life coding because I’m under the impression of programmers being with their beloved personal computers all day long which leads to some weird and unexplained cases naming their PCs, like “Salvadore” (That’s my baby, referring to my laptop, right there! ) but that thought changed after reading the book, “How?”, because finally there is someone who I share my personal concepts with, the only difference is that he has a book and a company and a job. 37signals mentioned in the book that programming should NOT be painful but rather enjoyable for it will define the end product and the user WILL definitely notice that is why our codes have the ability to jump out and strangle us once we force it to do something, in accordance to the the three major constraints (Time, Budget, and Scope), it is not supposed to.
Dedication. Need an explanation? I suggest you open another tab then type the keyword “dedication” in Google.com BUT you wouldn’t do that because we, our generation, like convenience. So for your convenience, dedication really means the act of devoting or setting aside for a particular purpose (see how much I love you guys *wink wink*). Going back to my point, software development requires dedication because there is too much to do in front of the PC which often takes months to finish with so little coffee that it will come to the point where you won’t know the difference between night and day even Gossip Girl and Prison Break, that’s why dedication is a MUST and also remote controlled refrigerator for FAST food, get it? fast? fast food? oh forget it!
Amount of coffee you have to drink in a day. Hey! Even I’m too lazy to explain this.
So far, I love the book unless someone can challenge me and care to explain an opposed point of view.
Getting Real is not for everyone, I agree, but its purpose to state an idea of convenience for both developer and user is truly a leap because in school, we focus primarily on the user needs and convenience neglecting the fact that WE are not some robot that decode a piece of paper for scope and encodes everything with perfection. 37signals, their passion, dedication, and maybe the amount of coffee they drink everyday made it clear that convenience goes both ways.
Are you confused? curious? or even constipated? Getting Real by 37signals is available in this link http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
“Opening your head only means you are under a surgical operation.” ~ Riela Isabel Antonio
