I am Gandalf Ninja, and you shall not pass!

What??

You are a manager, not a developer any more, so no more peeks inside the camel book^*

But this is what I enjoy!

Ah, but you are a manager now

Just be quiet and get out of my way. And stop looking at me so sternly.

No, I am here to stop you returning to your old ways. Management is good. Development is not good.

I disagree

That is not my concern

Yes, I think I’d noticed

So stop looking at the camel and get on with your work of managing things

[Sigh]

[Smirk]

[Smile. Big smile.]

[Puzzled look]

[Typing…]

[Staring]

OK, Mr Ninja smartypants. I’m now going to spend the day creating an HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript page that uses the geolocation API to show where someone is on a map.

[Annoyed look]

Yes, that’s right. I don’t need the camel book for that! Ha!

[Looking crestfallen] I have failed

You sure have, buddy! You can’t keep me away from the code, no matter what you say

I bet it won’t work

. . . several hours later . .

It works!

Are you sure?

Yes, look!

Rats!

Hurrah! Another victory over the Gandalf Ninja of Management.

The camel book, as any decent web developer of a certain age will know, is the affectionate name for O’Reilly’s “Programming Perl” book, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant. [Back]