Rants
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Rants
Technorati Tags: Rants,Standards,Architecture I’ve gotten pretty worked up lately about comments from those developers who frequently hack stuff together and apply code & run atmospheres in their shops because they just don’t know any better and think this is the way to satisfy the business and their development team. What am I talking about? Comments like this: “Oh I’ve read articles before from people like that. A lot of that is just academic and theory, and not reality” “You’re trying to make too perfect of code” “The UI doesn’t need to be pretty” “Just...
Technorati Tags: Management,Standards,Architecture,Rants The good thing is, I don’t have to ramble on as to why this is probably the worst post I’ve ever read relating to development. I think if I did my rambling would be an 800 page book. But here it is, the most naive post I’ve ever read. I suppose I shouldn’t be acknowledging and giving this guy any kind of attention but it’s so bad, I feel an obligation to share a post from a true Salesman which is what he is, not a developer: The Duct Tape Programmer (la la la...
Technorati Tags: Java,Rants I was browsing the net, looking into what Lucene.NET is all about. Interesting enough, I was awe-struck when I came across the official “Page O’Nerds”! In fact though it was the most interesting page in the entire apache site because it actually “drew my attention” and had some real content in it other than plain text. This link brought forth to you from an anti-Java, Oracle, ColdFusion (believe it or not, some places still use it as sad as it is), PHP, Unix, and Apache dude…yes very shallow but true and I’m not afraid to...
Technorati Tags: Rants,Opinion,Management I often see this in job descriptions for Software Developer positions. I don’t know about you but to me this kind of description is just getting ridiculous these days and I’m seeing this language more and more. I mean is this kind of statement really necessary? We’re all adults and professionals here. Personally when it’s that strongly stated in such a passive aggressive tone, it turns me off. Yea yea, you’re telling me your environment is hard core and extremely high pressured. Wonderful, as I woke up this morning I was thinking wow, I really...
Technorati Tags: Rants I was reading my incoming mail today. Got another .NET Insight email. Decided this time to read it and not push it off to my article folder in Gmail. One of the first lamest articles I’ve ever seen from Visual Studio Magazine which definitely can have good articles, was “hotka’s Labyrinth: The End of the Language Wars”. What’s the point of this post? How does this benefit anyone? It’s a null point. He claims that this will end the wars against which language is better because .NET is language independent. As far as I am concerned...
Technorati Tags: C#,Standards,Rants There are two major annoyances when it comes to good code and readable code. Here are 2 things that really every team should ensure happens (at least in my opinion ). 1) Any method should not be more than 50 lines but preferably < 25 if possible. I cannot stand huge methods. The point of OOP is to abstract logic out into manageable pieces. Methods are meant to mainly do one unit of work. Not 5 units to make up 1 unit. Put your logic in reusable methods so that they are not only reusable, but...
Technorati Tags: Rants SharePoint SharePoint how sad are we Your marketing promise me everything under the sun & as far as my eyes can see A hidden cost, a nasty toss, a huge 5 year loss Go hire a whole team, 3rd party pugs-ins, SharePoint consultants with nothing BUT cost SharePoint SharePoint, I hate you so You’re a clown with a funky smile, but do you fool me? hell no You are a big smelly beast running sweaty into the night Because your API is so bad, developers constantly put up a fight SharePoint SharePoint what horrible code...
Technorati Tags: IPhone,Rants I have to say, I love my IPhone. But I have to say I hate ITunes in general as half the time, it prohibits me in terms of usability, and causes more pain than it does good. There are many reasons why ITunes lacks usability and but I will not go into all that now. I’m focusing today on the Gmail contact sync in ITunes for IPhone. The main issues I have with IPhone Sync & Google contacts are the following: 1) Whether you like it or not, ITunes syncs all contacts in...
Technorati Tags: Rants I can’t believe Microsoft would not let me browse some sites like today, such as when I was checking out the Microsoft Partner Site using Mozilla. I got this very strange error today while trying to look at the Microsoft Gold Partner site just for kicks to see what was on there lately: Problem Encountered You are using an unsupported Internet browser. Please use the most recent non-beta version of Internet Explorer to access this page. If you continue you will likely experience performance issues. Please download this supported version or proceed to the PMC page...
Technorati Tags: Rants I don’t know how many shops I’ve seen, interviewed with, or even worked at that wave the “We’re a Microsoft Gold Partner” geek flag waved around as if without knowing the place, we automatically are supposed to assume the shop is a credible development shop. Most of these are waved by non-technical managers that know nothing about quality code. This means nothing to me in terms of credibility & quality, and it’s clearly just a marketing term that only benefits Microsoft and somehow makes employers think they should be proud that they are a Gold Partner. It’s...
Technorati Tags: Standards,Rants,Management,Series,Source Control I’m going to post a series of what I call “Red Flags” in development shops. Things that in some development shops happen frequently & also encompass one or more of the following below: 1) Destruct an overall development shop’s efficiency 2) Produce a team environment with unnecessary stress 3) Happen due to lack of standards/process and expectations 4) Happen as the result of bad management, bad attitudes, lack of professionalism, lack of ethics, or just bad business practice altogether These series of posts really start paint the picture of growing problems in many IT shops today,...
Technorati Tags: Rants I always love it when you get a cheesy executive/manager who really stretches & attempts to sound technical but fails badly by using the term “Web 2.0”. First off, this term means absolutely nothing specific. I once had a non-technical CIO tell me that “JavaScript based Web Services are what Web 2.0 is all about”. Right then and there I knew he was really reaching for the stars to sound Savvy or technical, but in reality it really comes off pretty cheesy to a developer. What does the number “2.0” have to do with the entire internet...
Technorati Tags: Rants I always love it when a fellow developer tells you at times he/she "doesn't recall" or "doesn't know" when you ask them a question (after doing your own research) based on something they clearly have done in the past (which is why you are asking them in the first place). Maybe that person you are asking had mentioned it to the team at some point, or maybe you know that in the past that they have done something like that, or maybe you even see it in use on their own...
