I currently work as a PeopleSoft technical consultant, a title that, in practice, means that I'm a PeopleCode programmer. Documents with specifications somehow arrive to my desk and I just implement what the papers say. However, I'm going to be assigned to a project in which I'm going to be a functional consultant as well, that means th...
I am working part time in a small software company to raise some money. Without sounding arrogant: some of my co-workers I am working with in a team are writing horrible code. Both syntax- and algorithmic wise. Sure there are moments in the shadow of a deadline where things get a bit hacky but they do it all the time. Every time I have t...
Hey, So I think every team has one of those developers that is always "cutting edge" or wants to over complicate something that can be kept simple. My preference is why build a rocket when you only need a bike? So how do you deal with those team members? What if they have the mentality that since you are telling them its to complicated...
The more I am in the industry the more it appears to me that the average developers that I have met along my way are not really passionate about getting better in any way (e.g. reading books or articles, participating in communities outside the company like SO etc.). While I realize that at least until there will be enough qualified pe...
I am doing interviews with from time to time to recruit some not bad people. And I really think I AM NOT doing to correct Job. I work in a company when We have to do a lot o DB programming, .NET programming, Java programming, so we need people who are open minded and not focused on a particular tech. Afterall language is a notation, You ...
How do you work with someone when they haven't been able to see that there is a range of other languages out there beyond "The One True Path"? I mean someone who hasn't realised that the modern software professional has a range of tools in his toolbox. The person whose knee jerk reaction is, for example, "We must do this is C++!" "Ever...
I am the sole programmer for an eCommerce website. Sometimes I am asked to program something that I do not know how to do. If I respond that I cannot do that, I am usually told something like "Well if Amazon (or some other huge site) can do it, why can't we?". If I say something like "They use this expensive tool", their response is ...
I have this...friend. He is currently a hobbyist programmer so up until now he's only worked alone. He's worried that his (very) shy personality will affect his ability to work on a team and have his work constantly scrutinized by others. He's smart, a good programmer, and he loves programming. He also communicates well outside of face-t...
During grad school, I started a project to package a lot of research algorithms into a nice user interface (let's call this project ABCD). I did not have time to get very far, so my department hired someone to take what I did and expand it. When I finished my degree, I agreed to stay on at the university for a contract position to tie u...
I know it's quite a vast question, but I'm asking this from a "state of mind" point of view. I mean, what do you need to be a professional developer for a whole life? What are principal traits and skills you need to have to be a good coder? The only two I have in mind are - love to learn new technologies - very open-minded So, again, w...