Stories from the trenches of a bad programmer
Stories from the trenches of a bad programmer
How to hide the inner beauty of the software you develop
About the Book
The experiences of a mediocre, average, mad, bad programmer. It is a big, bold world of technology, but even bad wolves can survive ! All the errors in omission and commission are mine. However, all the characters are real.
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Table of Contents
- The monkey in me
- Maybe quality should come first
- This is probably why they call it engineering
- Experiment a bit when you are stuck…
- Just do it!
- Some people hate Nunit ?
- You are paid the big bucks to think differently
- Sample only,not for sale or use
- The usefulness of prototyping
- Hey! Don’t use that !
- Even programmers have to be proactive
- What have you done that no other human has done !
- Read the manual, you !!!!
- The honeymoon is over
- Logging is the x-ray for programming
- Maybe agile has a point after all
- Xunit - the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
- “The carrots are cooked”
- Cutting edge technology is a double edged knife
- Every programmer has a past
- Trees and machine learning
- Trees again
- Why are trees so important in computer science
- More machine learning
- The exceptional exceptions
- Will Jetbrains give me a commission ?
- The case of the missing bug
- Hey Doc !
- Too clever for one’s own good
- Don’t show your age
- Endangered jobs
- Good old days
- Do you still hold a real book ?
- In the old days
- The Brooks book
- Check the index
- Black forest or Random forest
- The user from Harry Potter
- If you want to keep quiet, minute the meeting
- Good SQL and bad SQL
- The accidental DBA
- Retire him to automated testing
- There is always a better bid
- Programmers who are not engineers
- What is the customer really thinking ?
- Interview surprises
- Mentor or manager ?
- Why do good people work in silent companies ?
- 80 percent of readability by 20 percent
- The wise man on the mountain
- Talent and skill
- Newtons law in daily life
- OJT (On the job training)
- Comment or code
- The academic and the programmer
- Top down versus bottom up
- Confessions of a sloppy software engineer
- Quality flows down from the top
- The customer knows what he does not want after he sees it
- Culture shock
- Information radiators
- All old men are not wise
- Innovators who start companies
- Engineers by choice or fate
- A software customer is like a single parent
- Stone the devil !
- Open door policy
- It’s not about the technology
- The Microsoft bug
- Why does a software manager earn more than a taxi driver ?
- What is the password to get this job ?
- Why are services so poor ??
- The recruitment filter
- “I don’t know”
- Wear different hats
- Darwin and software
- How do computer scientists invent ideas ?
- “You are barking up the wrong tree !”
- Who designed this and why ?
- Power versus influence
- “Testing only proves the presence of bugs, not their absence”
- Monkey box testing
- Mentoring by doing
- Technical Lead ?
- Are you an ‘engineer’ or one ?
- This is what i did…
- When your instincts are wrong
- When your instincts are wrong
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