Comments on: Fighting for respect http://www.solutionbot.com/2010/06/10/fighting-for-respect/ The ramblings of web developer Beau Brownlee Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:13:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: herchen http://www.solutionbot.com/2010/06/10/fighting-for-respect/comment-page-1/#comment-7721 herchen Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:55:09 +0000 http://www.solutionbot.com/?p=348#comment-7721 I completely agree. I have worked on many different development teams and everybody has their preferred way to do things. I can always learn from someone else, so rarely will you see me pound my nerd-fist down and insist something be done a certain way. Except for stuff that is obvious. Like resizing user images in your code instead of just accepting their huge file and setting the image width and height in html. Or using If, elseif, elseif, elseif, else when you could use a switch. Or drinking decaff. But I digress. My current job is working on a system that has been around for over 10 years. They have a lot of awesome new stuff (linq, google web toolkit, rails), but also have some funny old stuff too. Just last month I had to make an update to a loop in a classic ASP page that uses ADODB. And I still forgot to MoveNext. The page just sat there and spun forever. Then I remembered the first time I made that mistake - like 7 years ago - DOH! Point is, technology is just a tool. You can almost always accomplish the same thing multiple ways. And if you listen to the people you work with, and give them a little respect, you'll probably learn a lot more than if the whole world just did it your way. I completely agree. I have worked on many different development teams and everybody has their preferred way to do things. I can always learn from someone else, so rarely will you see me pound my nerd-fist down and insist something be done a certain way.

Except for stuff that is obvious. Like resizing user images in your code instead of just accepting their huge file and setting the image width and height in html. Or using If, elseif, elseif, elseif, else when you could use a switch. Or drinking decaff. But I digress.

My current job is working on a system that has been around for over 10 years. They have a lot of awesome new stuff (linq, google web toolkit, rails), but also have some funny old stuff too. Just last month I had to make an update to a loop in a classic ASP page that uses ADODB. And I still forgot to MoveNext. The page just sat there and spun forever. Then I remembered the first time I made that mistake – like 7 years ago – DOH!

Point is, technology is just a tool. You can almost always accomplish the same thing multiple ways. And if you listen to the people you work with, and give them a little respect, you’ll probably learn a lot more than if the whole world just did it your way.

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