Surfing through sitepoint, I came across this post by one of the new comers.
“Hi guys, just wanted to ask a question, how should we rate ourselves as php developers?”
I thought it was a rather valid and interesting question. It got me thinking about my very own rating process. Personally, I rate myself on level of code quality, work rate compared to research rate and elegance of the source code I produced to provide solutions.
“Quality Cheap Hosting” is slowly becoming one of those marketing buzzwords that no one will eventually believe. Last night was an extremely frustrating, “kill an innocent looking animal” moment for me. I had time to do some things on my Web Site, did some changes messed around with copy and when the time came to view it live, guess what? My site was down. I thought well this is probably the .01% of the time when it’s down. I decided to leave it for a few hours. Tried again, it was still down.
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Legacy Code. That which holds auto didactic developers and programmers in it’s paranoid grip (well those that care anyway). The fact that someone will look at your code and see all your failed experiments, spaghetti, odd, and non-standards compliant code is enough to make any of us blush and bury our heads into our nests as a threatened ostrich would.
I went to a small social convention with my former workmates and one of them specifically was left with dealing with the legacy code I left behind. It wasn’t broke at he time I left, but I guess the time came for some changes to be made to a specific application. I found out that I am no different to anyone else who has started their web development sojourn on their own.
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