I am my own employer .. makes no sense to refund myself ;-) I started with Delphi 1.0 .. but just doing it in my past time because jobs for senior Oracle Developers paid much better. I switched to doing Delphi fulltime in middle of 2003 when I saw that I can make a comfortable living selling my own programs (to companies like EDS, Telecom, Fonterra, Aderant and Datacom in New Zealand).
Cheers, Stefan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyley Harris Sent: Sunday, 30 April 2006 7:47 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] Productivity Are you saying that 444k lines is your output for the last 25 days? ;) Or is that how much you did last year? Or since you started Delphi? If it isnot your last 25 days based on your own calculation then you should really insist on refunding your employer for all that idle time. Procedure OutputFilesLineCount(x:integer); If x = 1 then Writeln('1') else If x = 2 then Writeln('2') else If x = 3 then Writeln('3') else ... I guess I could whip up a lot of lines if I wrote code that way. With a team of 10 developers I think I could tell my project manager that We'd finish that routine in around 2100. And that's coding at 2.5 seconds a line. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Mueller Sent: Sunday, 30 April 2006 7:05 p.m. To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: RE: [DUG] Productivity Pretty much agree with the others that lines of code isn't a good way to measure your productivity ... but I just couldn't resist and had to check how many lines of code I actually wrote. I am getting a linecount of 441'062 in all my own *.pas files. Feels like a lot .. but if you calculate 5 seconds to actually write a line of code then this turns out to be only a bit over 25 straight days of non-stop programming(no debugging/testing time included) ... which I guess is ok - looks like I didn't waste too much of my life on programming after all ;-) Regards, Stefan ps: some simple program to get the count of lines is attached. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2006 11:59 a.m. To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: [DUG] Productivity How do others measure programmers productivity? In my first year seriously doing Delphi (learning Delphi and programming around 1/4 of my working days) I have written around 25,000 lines of .PAS files in about 15 programs - are there any standard measures of productivity? John _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
