GermanDZ/Born To Code

## Born To Code
Welcome to our blog!

There are several motives that moved us to create this blog, and it was about time that the countless conversations we have about the topics we'll discuss on this blog were shared with the whole community. We believe that the final push came when we were at Stuttgart, Germany, where Simply Red and a software company united to screw us over.

Stuttgart, a siberian cold front is punishing europe, it's extremely cold. We've just arrived from Florence, Italy, it's almost midnight and finding available  rooms has turned into a mission. The city is packed with weekend tourism that arrived to the city for a Simply Red concert. After hours of searching and feeling a bit frustrated because we can’t find a hotel with available rooms, we suddenly see another hotel: it’s on the other side of the road and U-turns are not allowed, so we venture into an industrial neighborhood and we get pulled over by the police, ugh. After wasting our precious time with their routinary stop, we get to the hotel:

-Good evening, have you got any available rooms?

-Yes, I have two…

-(about to shed tears of joy) GREAT!

-…but I can't give them to you because I don't know which ones they are.

-what?

-Yeah, our system is down and I can't see which ones they are.

-WHAT?

-We've called the company that provides us with the system, and they say that it's an outage, but they don't know how long it'll take to come back up online.

-WHAT?!?!?!

-I can help you guys out by calling other hotels to see if there are any available rooms so you don't have to keep driving around…

Well, this good guy called all hotels in the city only to find out that they were all full, at least that saved us some time. At this point, we have very few options: drive to the next city arriving around 3am and try to get a hotel there, or sleep in the car. Sleeping in the car is an awful option, but driving on the autobahn during a snow storm without winter tires and sleepy as hell doesn't sound very glamorous either, or safe for that matter. We then drove to a gas station and we tried to sleep there… of course that in little less than an hour our bodies woke us up shaking uncontrollably, bordering hypothermia. We woke up and started talking about how bad software quality leads to system outages, and we thought that by writing about high quality design and development was our mission.

Information systems have a great impact that goes well beyond their limit and scope, they are part of our lives. It's imperative that as professionals, we take each and every development project with a great deal of responsibility and with a high awareness of quality. Information systems can produce transformations: they make business send potential guests to their competition, that two young guys end up without shelter during a snow storm, and that people that didn't use to write blogs now start doing so.
	Welcome to our blog!

	There are several motives that moved us to create this blog, and it was about time that the countless conversations we have about the topics we'll discuss on this blog were shared with the whole community. We believe that the final push came when we were at Stuttgart, Germany, where Simply Red and a software company united to screw us over.

	Stuttgart, a siberian cold front is punishing europe, it's extremely cold. We've just arrived from Florence, Italy, it's almost midnight and finding available rooms has turned into a mission. The city is packed with weekend tourism that arrived to the city for a Simply Red concert. After hours of searching and feeling a bit frustrated because we can’t find a hotel with available rooms, we suddenly see another hotel: it’s on the other side of the road and U-turns are not allowed, so we venture into an industrial neighborhood and we get pulled over by the police, ugh. After wasting our precious time with their routinary stop, we get to the hotel:

	-Good evening, have you got any available rooms?

	-Yes, I have two…

	-(about to shed tears of joy) GREAT!

	-…but I can't give them to you because I don't know which ones they are.

	-what?

	-Yeah, our system is down and I can't see which ones they are.

	-WHAT?

	-We've called the company that provides us with the system, and they say that it's an outage, but they don't know how long it'll take to come back up online.

	-WHAT?!?!?!

	-I can help you guys out by calling other hotels to see if there are any available rooms so you don't have to keep driving around…

	Well, this good guy called all hotels in the city only to find out that they were all full, at least that saved us some time. At this point, we have very few options: drive to the next city arriving around 3am and try to get a hotel there, or sleep in the car. Sleeping in the car is an awful option, but driving on the autobahn during a snow storm without winter tires and sleepy as hell doesn't sound very glamorous either, or safe for that matter. We then drove to a gas station and we tried to sleep there… of course that in little less than an hour our bodies woke us up shaking uncontrollably, bordering hypothermia. We woke up and started talking about how bad software quality leads to system outages, and we thought that by writing about high quality design and development was our mission.

	Information systems have a great impact that goes well beyond their limit and scope, they are part of our lives. It's imperative that as professionals, we take each and every development project with a great deal of responsibility and with a high awareness of quality. Information systems can produce transformations: they make business send potential guests to their competition, that two young guys end up without shelter during a snow storm, and that people that didn't use to write blogs now start doing so.