I present you with the taxonomy of terrible software developers, the ecosystem of software critters and creatures who add a whole new meaning to the concept of “defensive programming.”http://www.aaronstannard.com/the-taxonomy-of-terrible-programmers/At one point or another, every programmer exists as at least one of these archetypes – the good ones see these bad habits in themselves and work to fix them over time. The bad ones… simply are.
Coolblue is a company that sells customer electronics. They are located in The Netherlands. Matthias Noback visited the company earlier this week and wrote an interesting article on the developer culture at the company. There are too many good bits to give you a single quote. Read the entire article on Matthias' blog:
http://php-and-symfony.matthiasnoback.nl/2015/07/behind-the-scenes-at-coolblue/
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