Lately I participated in a couple of interviews. During those interviews, the interviewers tried to classify me as either a medium level developer or a senior developer. That's when it occurred to me to think about the progress that I made in the past 6 years or so since I have been professionally developing commercial software. Honestly, over the course of these years I have learned to look from the perspective of other developers when writing code. Equally as important, I learned that when I have a complex problem to solve, my job isn't actually to solve that problem directly. But rather my job is to find out ways to make that complex problem more simple and then to come up with a series of simple functionalities which add up to a simple solution. This has a lot of consequence on the way I develop software. For example, if you need to develop a big application, you can think of that application as a series of smaller applications that need to collaborate together to do wh