Smart developers
March 7th, 2007
Brian is ranting about people who think they are smarter than others. In my experience, there are no dumb developers. Developers differ in their ways of doing things, or their goals, or their priorities, but to assume that somebody is dumb just because she does something different than you is not correct. It's a great way to stroke your ego, though.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:19 PM [...] There are no dumb developers? Just finished reading entry #3 on the javablogs.com Hot Entries page titled “Smart Developers”. What made me want to write about this particular article was the statement: In my experience, there are no dumb developers. [...]
April 21st, 2008 at 10:19 PM There are, however, developers who choose to do something in a bad way for no good reason. Like you say, though, it's a matter of priorities. Is it not arguable that to choose a dumb set of priorities is dumb?
July 10th, 2008 at 08:07 PM No dumb developers huh - you haven't met mine then. Isn't it a bit dumb for all developers to do their own thing when written documentation exists? How do you automate such an environment? Then that raises the question about dumb management.