Setting aside my natural state as the reclusive nerd-type I flew in to Silicon Valley this week for my first EclipseCon. Lots of new experiences to take in, new aquaintances, and a first convention representing my new employer, Genuitec.

Back when WordPerfect was the king of the hill and Microsoft Word was the challenger I remember there was a setting or something you could turn on that would make Word look more like WordPerfect so that you wouldn't have to re-learn all your habits.

You may be asking what is WordPerfect, right ? I guess Microsoft won that war eh ?

As a developer, how much time do I spend adding value, and how much time maintaining infrastructure ?

Sometimes my estimate goes like this

• Adding Value: 20% of my time
• Maintaining Infrastructure 80% of my time

Really I have no idea, but sometimes it seems like it really is lopsided.