>Sean posted this to his blog, but I was wondering how many of you read >it and agree with it. > >http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/ > >I work with a guy who is exactly opposite of this list while I match >up with quite a bit of it. That may sound like I'm tooting my own >horn, but I've become the goto guy for any kind of programming >question in my company. Heck, the other guy is the "VB" guy, but I >still field all the macro questions and vb scripting questions! > >I don't necessarily know if matching all these criteria make me a >"good" programmer, but programming is something I've known I've wanted >to do since my first VIC-20 at the tender age of 11. It frustrates me >a lot of times to see the crap code this other guy puts out, but on >the other hand, it's seems to be what business wants. "Does it work? >Great, ship it!" seems to be the motto. > >I on the other hand battle with the urge to make the code more sleek, >beautiful, etc before it ships.....sometimes to the point where I miss >deadlines.
REminds me of one supervisor's mantra: Perfect is the enemy of good. It seems to me that all too often we tend to forget that. Is it cost effective to spend an extra 80 hours tweaking small stuff that no one will notice. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250713 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
