How I hate crap developers

jxharding said:
maybe the dev needs to gain more experience , maybe he is not a crap dev?

I'm just thinking, is everyone here absolutely 100% sure that every single function you've EVER written, is in a try catch?
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I seriously doubt it.
But best case scenario is at least let it bubble up and get caught at the app level correctly. Not ideal, but better than your app crashing out on some poor user. I always do this for those odd instances I forget to try/catch something.
 
Mike Smit said:
I seriously doubt it.
But best case scenario is at least let it bubble up and get caught at the app level correctly. Not ideal, but better than your app crashing out on some poor user. I always do this for those odd instances I forget to try/catch something.
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trying to look at your site now
http://www.savitarit.net/Install/UnderConstruction.htm

when will you be ready for the judging? you up for it :)
 
Hamster said:
To me the clock watchers are the most "dangerous". I'd much rather work with an average developer that takes pride in his work than with a genius that drops everything when the clock strikes 17:00. You'd get way more done with that eager less knowledgable dev.
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+1 wisest thing i seen said in a long time on here.
 
Just spent 2 days swearing at a Proof of Concept demo that was dropped in my lap, together with a Web Designer. Some mom and pop marketing company leveraging off a opensource CMS system using PHP and Apache. My client is a pure Microsoft Shop, IIS and Server 2008. And I'm a integration specialist.
Of course the first thing asked of me is to see if the package can work with SSO. Cue 2 days hammering this thing to use LDAP with someone who keeps on pointing out that she is a web designer, not a developer. At least she's cute.
 
Hamster said:
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Some people are born with more drive than others, a bigger desire to reach the top in their careers. To you it probably doesn't matter as much as it does to me since our priorities are very different. Although there are lots of fathers putting in extra hours in our team.
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Lol dude ... you remind me of the tosser who was my department head at my previous job. Always going on about "drive" and "going the extra mile" ... yadda ... yadda ... yadda. He was a corporate ladder climber and he was going to be a company director within 12 months. Is a backstabbing butt who lied his way out of trouble at the cost of other. I made sure he no longer had a senior position.

Now me, I work my 40hrs (sometimes) but in 6yrs I've accomplished a lot. I often read up on new tech during my lunch and on my daily commute. I won't work if you don't pay me. My code is good, it works, to the spec and is delivered within time. I don't have corporate drive!
 
My view of a good developer is not about when they leave work; for me it's about whether they actually get the work done.
A developer can be the most knowledgeable on the team, but if they can't actually get something done it's not worth much.

Most developers in the real world has to sacrifice quality for quantity sometimes, and the product thereof could be buggy code. The fact is, a developer will spend more than half of his/her time maintaining code(your's or other's), rather than doing actual new development.

I also have my 8-5 structure, but it really doesn't mean anything to me: in my mind, I get paid to do my job - not to slave behind my desk each day.
I normally work from "whenever I get to work", until the tasks I set my "do this ****" list are completed(or parts thereof).
If I finish before five, I go home - otherwise my productivity will just drop to staring at mails for the rest of the day.

Some other things that come to mind when thinking of a good developer:
1. Still reads up a programming books(or articles) now and again,
2. Participate in OS projects or launches own projects,
3. Is profound in a language other than what the job requires.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Now me, I work my 40hrs (sometimes) but in 6yrs I've accomplished a lot. I often read up on new tech during my lunch and on my daily commute. I won't work if you don't pay me. My code is good, it works, to the spec and is delivered within time. I don't have corporate drive!
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And you will retire as a good developer one day. If you are happy with that then there is no problem.
 
Good developers are golden. From the borderline Aspergers who sits quietly listening to Heavy Metal while coding, to the office goofball who is willing to go the extra mile and will sit on a impossible problem until he has a solution.

But the one rule I learned in 14 years is - if someone has given his notice - DO NOT give him anything important to do before he leaves. Handover, and do code review with him. But do not give him new stuff in his last month.

nand said:
My view of a good developer is not about when they leave work; for me it's about whether they actually get the work done.
A developer can be the most knowledgeable on the team, but if they can't actually get something done it's not worth much.

Most developers in the real world has to sacrifice quality for quantity sometimes, and the product thereof could be buggy code. The fact is, a developer will spend more than half of his/her time maintaining code(your's or other's), rather than doing actual new development.

I also have my 8-5 structure, but it really doesn't mean anything to me: in my mind, I get paid to do my job - not to slave behind my desk each day.
I normally work from "whenever I get to work", until the tasks I set my "do this ****" list are completed(or parts thereof).
If I finish before five, I go home - otherwise my productivity will just drop to staring at mails for the rest of the day.

Some other things that come to mind when thinking of a good developer:
1. Still reads up a programming books(or articles) now and again,
2. Participate in OS projects or launches own projects,
3. Is profound in a language other than what the job requires.
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