Programming has never been so easy...  

After the advent of GUI tools like Visual Studio and plethora of other tools for other languages, it became easy for the developers to develop RAD tools in a very fast way. Nowadays the development is still in a very fast stage. Most of the programmers including me search in google for any ideas or for any sample data to copy & paste code in order to make our life easier. Some of the hard to crack logics have been provided online and I felt that google is a boon for programmers. Even some of the hard core experienced programmers are creating software under Open source license and publishing them online so others can play around. This movement has picked up momentum and I used it to the full use by downloading an Open source ticketing system and using it for our company. Though support is the biggest problem for open source software, patience and carefully searching through the Web will give you some insight to the solution. I used to wonder how those ancient C/C++ developers used to develop from scratch and I can say that they are the REAL programmers....