From my experience (as a project manager and through the website I manage, PM Hut), you demands from a code comment are quite high. Developers feel that the world owes them something when they add a comment (I’m sure that you know that most don’t). Tying a comment to a ticket will make them avoid commenting altogether.

How’s things going?

I saw your post of the guys “What Every *Good* Developer Should Know” and couldn’t help but laugh my ass off, sorry. This guy lives in a little bubble and needs to get out in the real world, oh and maybe wait until he’s programmed for a few more years and at a few more companies.

Remember Matt I’ve been doing this for 30 years and about 10 different companies. I’ve gone the gamut from Game development writing in 6502 Assembly on the Apple II and Commodore 64 to Pascal on Apple DOS to C on PC DOS to C/C++Windows 2.x thru Windows 7 to C/C++Mac to C BSD and Java on Mac/Windows/Linux. A number of my close friends a developers from the late 80′s and early 90 and I speak for them as well. The reason I can speak for them is because we’ve had this conversion so many times over the years, if I only had a Nickel for the times. They would agree completely with me especially about how bad a writer I am i.e. speller.

#10 What a joke, Communications, yea, you should be a 7 on a scale of 10 or better, but Documentation and Technical Writing a big fat 0. I got straight F’s in writing in school and have had no problem in my career. Does being a good writer make things easier, oh yea, you can write you boss emails much faster.

#7 Also a 0. I put myself on a scale of a 1. I’ve had to do two weeks of database programming. Of all the developers I worked with over the years (about 100) less then 10 new database programming. But 80% could be up and running in a few weeks.

#5 That’s all you need to know. The only HTML coding I have ever done was the two years working with you. And I didn’t know anything about HTML before stating, like I didn’t know C before starting my C job or C++ before starting my C++ job or Java before starting my current job. Young developers always think what they know is Gods gift to man.

#6 What planet does he live on. My company pays me way to much money to be fulling around with that crap.

#1 LOL, vi, are you kidding me. I know less then 10 people who use it. I’m not saying they shouldn’t but there’s no reason on earth to know vi. It’s amassing how the 90 developers I’ve worked with over the years have gotten by with out it. I still work with guys I worked with back in 1990. There are guys I work with now who have been programming for 40 years and don’t use vi, shocking.

#4 #8 Absolutely!!!

These guy who write these stupid top 10 lists need to get a love. Also they need to get out of there cubes and stop eating Hot Pockets:)

P.S. I must say one of the best times I had as a developer was working with you and having a chance to mentor you. You’re a really great guy and coworker.

I tried to reach out to you about a few positions that I’m working on in your area because your background looked like a fit. I reached one very unhappy person at this number (919) 435-7670, which you have listed on your resume, but isn’t your number. He would appreciate it if you corrected the number or removed it completely. Just thought you’d like to know.

It was nice to chat. I agree with you that it would be a good idea to share your work. I see that in the medical electronic world, people are looking for good solutions to help them develop better products and minimize risks and recalls.

John Koon
Publisher
Medical Electronic Device Solutions Magazine
The RTC Group
http://www.medsmag.com
http://www.rtcgroup.com

i’m new to all this.
( on ubuntu 10.4 )