I completely and total sympathize with you about time constraints and everyone wanting everything yesterday ... But I will tell you something .. One area where you REALLY should not be lazy, no matter how fast something is needed ... Is the commenting.
<cfsoapbox> If you are as swamped as you say, under a zillion requests, tasks and projects, what is the hope of you rembering what you did in template A , 6 months from now when a bug is discovered and you have to fix it, or an upgrade is requested and you have a seriously complicated looping update page that is connected to 6 different databases and updates information in each one based upon certain conditions? Are you going to remember every single bit of logic you used at that point in time? If you can, you are my absolute hero, and I will worship the ground you stand on forever, and can I have a piece of you photographic memory brain, .... Because I can't. And if I didn't at least comment skeleton-ly, I would be in such deep doo-doo with my apps. It can save you so much time down the road when you have to look at things. Too many people think, oh, I'll create Job Security and make it so my code is unreadable and not comment anything ... And it's just not true. That's not going to save your job. And don't think the person coming in after you even cares. They may be so brilliant and fast, they'll just rewrite your pages....and say who cares? The previous guy/gal was a slob. Good thing you sacked them. So basically, if you're going to skip corners to save time, don't let commenting your code be the thing you don't do, cause it take a few seconds extra while you are writing the code to sat "This does that" and "that does this if this true." You are only hurting yourself down the road. </cfsoapbox> Sorry for the rant. It's one of the harsh lessons I had to learn...and I'm always trying to save the population from a horrible mistake. ;) Erika (with a *K*) And commented code, no matter what. ------------------------------------------------ >>| -----Original Message----- >>| From: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>| >>| So, yeah, I guess it's safe to say >>| there's a bit of commenting missing from my code >>| >>| >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/2/2002 12:54:36 PM >>> >>| >>| due to this time constraint corners needed to be cut. >>| one major one was proper commenting of the code. >>| >>| well hey! if you would have given an extra day or so per >>| app to be properly commented you wouldn't be asking this. >>| but every thing is always due yesterday.. ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
