By considered - 10/22/2013
Is anyone else experiencing the absurdity of agencies who think they know more about software development than we do? Are employers really so badly educated that they're demanding their recruiters pitch them as unfriendly pretenders?
I've got more than 10 years experience with Visual Basic (not dot net) and about 4 years with the .Net version.
Having taken a year out of work I'm commonly hearing agencies who are suggesting their client won't be happy because I've forgotten how to write code. Some are even saying "which version of Visual Studio have you used?" to which I reply "2003/2008" and they're saying "it's got to be 2010 specifically".
...has the world gone completely mad?!
...they're talking about the one with the different coloured IDE, right?!
I've worked with dozens of developers who used the latest technology yesterday - at least half of them have no discipline whatsoever and have never even heard of programming principles! Don't even get me started on extensibility!
Some of you know the story I'm sure...
Maybe someone should start shouting about defensive programming, DRY (don't repeat yourself), abstraction, KISS (keep it simple stupid), SoC (separation of concerns), object-orientation, commenting, code reuse, POLA (principle of least astonishment), inheritance and extensibility!?
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I'm not worried - I just find it frustrating listening to nonsense.
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P.s. when is someone going to tell them that VB.Net is still Visual Basic?! ...with ASP.Net aside: what's the transition? A dozen lines of code?! Come on guys, someone on this planet 'aint standing up for themselves!...
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By considered - 10/22/2013
Perhaps I should send him a copy of the Pragmatic Programmer.
Then, when he gets to the chapter "the cat ate my source-code" he can smile to himself and think "Great! That's exactly the opposite!"
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