Permanence of Impermanence – Commentary by Cory Wendt

Nothing in life is permanent. This is my biggest motto in life, and the older I get, the more I believe it.

As a programmer and multimedia designer, I’m reminded of this truth every day. Every year coding languages upgrade and depreciate, grow and die, and if not kept up with, so will the programmer with them. Yet it’s not just languages moving forward, it’s Internet browsers, applications, programs, computers, operating systems, devices – yikes! I could go on forever and not even cover everything!

This proves that being a good—nay, a great programmer isn’t only about memorizing code once, but having the foresight and appetite to go out and research new code, standards and methods constantly. They say as long as you live, you never stop learning. I knew this would be the case after college, but I never imagined I’d have to learn so much so quickly after graduating. What I studied in school was only a drop in the bucket; what I’ve learned at Lime Valley in eight months feels like an ocean.

Sometimes I feel as if I can’t learn anymore, as if my brain will explode if I try to shove anymore into it, but I take great pride in all of the knowledge I hold. I know its value, and that if I don’t continue to tend to it dutifully like the flowers in a garden, it will one day return to the ether from whence it came.

Not even knowledge can escape the inevitable truth of our world: “Nothing in life is permanent.”

– Cory Wendt is a Web Developer with Lime Valley Advertising, Inc.