Going through life we learn there is always a correct way of doing things, despite if other ways produce the same result, and even they are faster.
The same is for belonging to a certain group – there are rules to follow, even if not following them would benefit the group (and other groups) greatly.
In this article we will focus on what it takes to be a True Programmer (Real Programmer), the one and only ideal, to be accepted in the glorious programmers’ community.
In my previous post Are developers like instrument players? I have posed a concluding question “Are developers paid only to write the code?”
Now I will go into lengthy details, joining discussion present on a couple of blogs.
Have you recently started a job at a new software company or changed a project? Maybe even after two years the legacy app you maintain still makes no sense to you? This article presents tips on how to get into complex projects quickly.
Even as developers, we can find ourselves in bad workplaces. Too much or not enough processes, spaghetti unmaintainable codebase, over-engineered solutions, lack of automated testing, poor planning, old technologies, long manual builds, to name a few.
The most popular solution to all these problems is a job change.
We want improved companies, but do we at least try to improve them? Why we do not change current jobs to be a new, better ones?