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.
Getting into complex / legacy projects quickly
Legacy project – I have no idea what I am doing
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.
Codex: Leaving a job
Leaving a job
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?