Picture yourself in the Wild West, all you can trust is your sturdy horse, a few bucks in your back pocket and the hint of gunpowder as you polish your gun in the hot desert sun. Yeehaw! Brings you back home, doesn't it?... OK maybe not.
Alrighty...How about the dark and musty room, by your side the familiar hum of the computer fan, the ticking of the hard drive as it starts to boot up and the mechanical beep as it does the initial memory check... Yeehaw! As you strap yourself in, your favourite command prompt loads, the flashing of the input cursor begging you to make that first keystroke...
So back to reality. As much as you've heard the stories of the lone-gunslinger, and potentially how that parallels to the lone-coder, you really don't want to be in that position; even though that type of a character is romanticized.
I learn by a number of ways, by reading, by doing and by collaborating. And I want to point out the most important part, collaboration. The lone-gunslinger will always be the lone gunslinger, and nothing more. You want to rise above this type of stereotype. You want to grow not by just reading and doing but by collaborating, by sharing your experience with other devs. By joining a community where you learn from others as much as they learn from you. What a great world we live in where this archaic notion is blown to pieces with the sharing of ideas through the tribes of the internet. The lone-gunslinger as the lone-coder is going the way of the dinosaurs. Get out there, share those ideas, it’s a brave new world....
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