+1 On 20 June 2012 12:44, Andrew Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In my RoRo travels, I've been initiator of, the recipient of, and privy > to, disparaging remarks about "the previous bunch of n00bs" who were the > last developers to touch a project. > > This happens on projects big and small, by both professionals of many > years experience, all the way down to non-Rails shops who slapped a junior > coder on the project. > > But because you don't know the circumstances: > * the budget > * the deadlines > * politics > * promises and obligations > * vague scope > * creeping scope, etc > I think it unwise to pass judgment on the "previous guy", whether to the > client, or to your peers. > > Indeed, it would be bad form for the "previous guy" to mention any of the > above, especially if he parted company with the client in awkward > circumstances. Comments on the previous guy doesn't really give the client > the warm fuzzies anyway. > > TLDR; Lets not rip on each other. Lets keep these thoughts to ourselves > and stick to doing what we do best. > > - Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]**. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <rails-oceania%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/rails-oceania?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en> > . > > -- ** *FreeBSD is for those who love UNIX(tm). Linux is for those who hate Windows(tm). * *"To recurse is human, to box a continuation into an object and send it across a network is divine. " -- Andy Kitchen* * * * "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian W. Kernighan. * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
