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So I've been a downer and don't want to give my reader a bad impression. ;) I do love programming and not all shops are as bad as I've experienced. I've been doing this for such a short time that my experience cannot be a good statistical...
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In April of 2006 I was desperate to break through from tech support and testing to development. My wife wanted to move to Arizona to be close to family and was being laid off. I also wanted to get out of Ohio after living there my entire life. I applied...
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One thing I noticed while working at restaurants was how weird chefs can be about their knives. You can tell who is serious about being a chef by how they treat their knives. Many have their own sets, those that don’t tend to lay claim to the best in...
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When reading xp books and general programming practice books, there is ambiguity and conflicting points on the subject of writing the “simplest” code to get something running. “Write the simplest code to get the test to pass”. Generally the worst code...
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Unlike some other careers, programming doesn’t have a well defined path. You can go in many directions and some lead to dead ends. I've been given a lot of bad advice as well as some good. This is an accumulation of the good. Object Oriented Programming...
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In an attempt to be crazy famous, I've devised a few tricks and tips to help a senior developer to defend his turf from the Jr. Developer. A guy like me, that is after his job. These techniques I call UnFactoring, since they are largely the antithesis...
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1) If your Jr. Developer is interested in a new .Net technology, r emind him at lunch that Microsoft is ‘teh suk’ and produces only crap. 2) If your Jr. Developer says the word "Pattern", ask him what book he read and remind him that book writers...
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