Comments on: Are You a Software Developer or a Dabbler

By: Jens Schauder

Jens Schauder — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:10:10 +0000

I’m sorry that you are so desperate. But yes, I am involved in software development. And yes if what you write is correct, you or your boss are not behaving very professional.

By: Desperate Developer

Desperate Developer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:51:06 +0000

Jens Schauder,
maybe you are not involved in software development at all.
If you are involved in a software development you should know that if a project needs 5000 days of work your boss will give you at the most 500 days, so your point are just theory.

Bye

By: Jens Schauder

Jens Schauder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:43:04 +0000

@Elvind
Thanks for the comment.

I agree on the bug/issue tracking system. I missed that one.

I do not agree on the editor thingy. I personally can’t breath without a decent IDE. There was a time when I did everything with emacs. But I really do not care to much what you use to create code. It shouldn’t become a speed limiting factor though.

Tagging: The name might vary on the envrionment. Maybe you document a version, revision or something, In SVN it is called a tag. The important point is: If somebody comes up and reports a problem with a piece of code or documentation, you must be able to reproduce it.

Style Guide: I insist. You must have one. On a small team (and often on a large one) it is sufficient to simply agree on ‘we use the sun coding guidelines for java’ or ‘Let’s set the autoformatter on these settings’ You don’t have to write it down, if you team is small.

Rule of thumb: Probably to every rule, one can construct a situation, where it isn’t feasible. The point is: whenever you find yourself in such an exception it should give you an awkward feeling, because you know: you must move with extra care, and you have to get out of that situation as fast as possible.

By: Eivind Eklund

Eivind Eklund — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:42:24 +0000

In my opinion, you missed

* Using a bug/issue tracking system.
* Knowing and using a high power editor. If you need to use an IDE due to the language, use this in addition to your IDE.

Also,I think a couple of your suggestions are very much environment dependent:
* Tagging everything (depends on the kind of releases)
* Using a style guide (really small environments – up to three people – can easily get by informally, and the overhead is probably not worth it).

Committing several times a day is a nice rule of thumb, but it varies. I usually commit several changes per day; but I’ve had changes sit for many months and it has been reasonable.

By: Jens Schauder

Jens Schauder — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:53:30 +0000

Wow, that is an extremely nice comment. Thank you very much.

By: Stefano Ricciardi

Stefano Ricciardi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:08:07 +0000

Excellent post. I am glad I have found another interesting blog like yours. You have a new reader

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