Webnerd
12-18-2009, 10:48 PM
I have been developing for many years now. I recently changed position to a company that supports several multi-lingual full unicode rtl and ltr website views. Within this system are several Javascript libraries for tickers and gliders and anything else for displaying news information.
I had to debug a certain Javascript glider library that was developed very poorly. After 1 hour into the code, I realized that it was no longer worth my time to fix this crappy solution. The funny thing is, a lot of developers and websites use this library. So, in 45 minutes, I wrote new code to function and read as it should.
There are a lot of novice developers in the "wonderful" open source community that develop Javascript libraries. Many more novice developers incorporate these libraries with little to no knowledge and look at the product and make statements like, "Look what I did!".
I wish that I could change modern developers but they have been so "enabled" for such a long time with such a multitude of coding resources that I know that effort is futile.
I want modern developers to start learning best practices and how to use languages correctly instead of just "slapping' crap together to say, "I built this". Even in the workforce, I have to compete with these "young bucks" straight from school who have a sense of entitlement 'cause they have a degree - which in IT, means nothing if they don't have the skills to support.
I see many people in the web industry come and go for this one main reason, only 20% actually "know" how to write code. The rest fake it.
That's my unintellectual rant for the day.
I had to debug a certain Javascript glider library that was developed very poorly. After 1 hour into the code, I realized that it was no longer worth my time to fix this crappy solution. The funny thing is, a lot of developers and websites use this library. So, in 45 minutes, I wrote new code to function and read as it should.
There are a lot of novice developers in the "wonderful" open source community that develop Javascript libraries. Many more novice developers incorporate these libraries with little to no knowledge and look at the product and make statements like, "Look what I did!".
I wish that I could change modern developers but they have been so "enabled" for such a long time with such a multitude of coding resources that I know that effort is futile.
I want modern developers to start learning best practices and how to use languages correctly instead of just "slapping' crap together to say, "I built this". Even in the workforce, I have to compete with these "young bucks" straight from school who have a sense of entitlement 'cause they have a degree - which in IT, means nothing if they don't have the skills to support.
I see many people in the web industry come and go for this one main reason, only 20% actually "know" how to write code. The rest fake it.
That's my unintellectual rant for the day.