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Dale Thompson wrote: Clean up crew
Maintenance developers?
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Sounds like the kind of job I want – I have had lots of experience cleaning up other people’s code and making it easier to modify in the future. 
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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I keep seeing these survey results, and they are always interesting, but can anyone tell me how to enter my answer to the weekly questions? I can't seem to find the link to any currently running survey which will accept my "vote".
Many thanks to whoever can answer this for me....Chris
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On the CP home page (http://www.codeproject.com[^]); the current survey is toward the bottom of the page in the box labelled "Weekly Poll". For this week's, select one of the radio buttons and click the 'Vote' button. I think you need to be a registered CP user in order to vote.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: I think you need to be a registered CP user in order to vote.
Is login mandatory? I don't think so. It uses IP Address to filter votes.
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I was literally offered "the visionary role" the other day. The CEO said "Paul, you're the visionary here so that is what I am calling your role from now on."
I do plenty of programming during the day but also a lot of research and prototyping.
Its great to be paid for this.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Did he offer you rose-colored glasses?
:rimshot:
(Congratulations, BTW  )
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Did he offer you rose-colored glasses?
He did, instead of a pay rise 
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Paul Watson wrote: He did, instead of a pay rise
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Great when you're paid for things you like doing most!
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Want to be happy - do what you like!
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I'm the only developer in the company (kinda small). Not very nice being alone, but sometimes I think it's invaluable. Most times, though, I'd like to have a colleague or two. 
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker
My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki
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ya it make diffenent when you have more then one developer also personal development also increase fast
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I have the same problem, its good to bounce an idea off someone else sometimes which is difficult when you work alone and also there's never anytime for training/development - looks like it will be VC++ for evermore!
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He he! Luckily I'm doing ASP.NET/C#. Sometimes I just start talking to my colleagues about some dev-related topic. They usually make a puzzled face and keep working.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker
My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki
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It's GREAT being the only developer! I don't have to struggle to understand and patch someone's incompetently-written framework. Everything's done the RIGHT way, everything's commented, and I understand the whole system.
At other jobs, I had to struggle to understand undocumented classes, 400-line methods, idiotic algorithms and variable names, and unreliable code, which made me look as bad as my predecessors. Now everything just works.
Other programmers often just cause problems and get in the way.
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Alan Balkany wrote: Everything's done the RIGHT way
But who decides what is the right way?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker
My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki
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Good question! Working alone person can reach some point in skills and then stop self development at all. And sometimes when you've developed your own framework and you proud of it - it happens that your "child" looks like a bu***it comparing to another framework. It happens. So I think if you work alone - you can't say that something you do is perfect until it is confirmed by another same or more skilled developers.
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Want to be happy - do what you like!
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In '92 I graduated University and, at that time, I lived a small town. While I was writing my licence thesys I realised that probably, 30 miles around I was the only able to write a C program. That time I was very proud. In fact it is very sad ...
36. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.
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Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
SUN-TZU - Art of War
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I worked for myself some years and I too discovered that it works better if you have one or more developers besides you on a team. It tends to make work easier and also the quality is going up as the other developers correct wrong ideas and extend good ideas you have.
Of course there are downsides to working with a team, like the need to clean up the mess that others left behind. But that's all part of the job and the pros outweigh the cons here.
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
"What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
My blog
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get me a job there buddy
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Ditto that - I'm the Architect, Developer, Documentation Writer, QA/QC department, while from time to time I'm also the database admin, the support guy, and the magic fraking 8 ball. I am always introduced by my employer to others as the Development Manager/Team Leader, to put them off the scent that the only team is in fact just me, myself and I..
While this has it's advantages when it comes to product direction (no-one to debate architecture with) and QC (no-one's bad code to debug), it definately has its disadvantages when it comes to milestones and deadlines. Unfortunately the boss often forgets that if I spend half my day answering emails, there's only half a day left for coding. He also tends to dismiss feature creep as something that might impact my productivity and timeliness of deliverables.
Come to think of it, I'd much prefer to be a part of a team. The one man band thing sucks. I need a new gig.
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But lately I've been thinking that janitorial work is a lot more rewarding. 
Marc
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Not necessarily[^]; it depends upon the type and grade of, er, muck you have to clean up.
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