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I’ve been plugging some of Joel Spolsky’s articles about coding recently because he has a fair bit of experience and his advice, although not suited to every situation, is generally good and deserving of serious consideration. I’ve pointed out articles from Joel on Software such as “Making Wrong Code Look Wrong“, and the points Joel [...]

Chances are most professional programmers will have to deal with software internationalization at some stage in their careers. Internationalization and localization of software are two sides of the same thing: Localizing an application is customizing it’s language, currency, sort orders, measurement systems, and more for a particular group’s needs. Typically this group is “people of a particular country” but other [...]

“The Waterfall Alliance” have produced a wonderful web site, advertising the Waterfall 2006 conference, with wonderful tutorials like “Pair Managing: Two Managers per Programmer” by Jim Highsmith. Take a look at their site, it’s full of ideas that probably achieve something… Not programming, but something.

Phil Chu’s company, Technicat, is a consulting and development company specializing in net, educational, graphical and video game software.

Phil writes articles based on his experience and they’re available on his web site. One that’s particularly relevant to Developing Programmers is called “Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers”.

Well not really. Today I’m exploring what kinds of rants experienced programmers have when they start working with someone new. There are a few reasons to do this and none are intended to offend. The main reason is that there are a few problems common to most new work places which can be identified and explored. This will make our readers at least fore-warned, and possibly arm them with ways to mitigate frustrations both from the perspective of a new programmer and also from the perspective of a team leader bringing someone new into a project.