Have a big legacy project which should be updated to current technologies,

but when it's done, these current technologies are outdated already, so you

Have a big legacy project which should be updated to current technologies,

New dev prefers mariadb over postgresql, which is okay.

But his main reason is 'the smaller docker image'

What an argument, wtf

Back from a 2 week holiday, inbox says 100+ messages

What is your back 2 work routine to get the current project status?

Not only once i fixed our Prototype while PO was presenting it.

Of course we checked the App for our presentation data, but PO was always confident that it would work with random data told by the customers too.

Luckily i was able to fix it while lunch break.

SOAP UI changed their icon in the latest update,

Still don't get the need of that
and i still remember the icon change of VS Code which was reverted shortly after

Learn enough docker to convince my coworker that it is not the solution to EVERY problem, especially not to our problem

a litte piece of javascript pinging the server every minute to prevent user being logged out

$(document).ready(function() {
setInterval(ping, 60000);
});

A php site delivering javascript in json
Which is executed by eval
{ jsaction :"document.getElementById('id').innerHtml = 'hello world' ; document.getElementById('id').style. Color='red' " }

How to deal with "Code Nazis" ?

Don't know how you call this guys that see each and every PR as a possibility to annoy everyone else

Team of 4 Devs, all with lots of experience

But there is a special one, that spams each PR with an incredible amount of comments

Most of them are non-sense like "formatting of comments" or "inlining things makes everything unreadable" or "call this variable this and that" although a reasonable name was their

Rest of team including myself is pretty pissed of by him

How to get over that?

tomorrow i will (finally) get a new teammate,

was working solo for 8 weeks now and in 2 months i will become parent and will take some time off

i wonder what's the best way for onboarding

i think i will try to do some pair programming until he gets the basic architecture and feels safe enough to work on his own

what's your experience on this, best onboarding you had?

!rant
TIL: The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias, that lets you think, stuff build by yourself is more worth then stuff build by others

Does that sound familiar to anyone?

Never say you can't do feature A, offer a different(better, cheaper, faster, possible) solution when saying NO to your boss

just read this article (german),
https://trendingtopics.at/wearedeve...

in the interview section, there was the magic sentence
"developers hate recruiters"

it is argued that they do not speak the same language, nor do they have the same background(recruiters are mostly HR or marketing people)

i hate those recruites, who are not even able to write my firstname correctly, when trying to contact me

any other reasons to hate them?

other dev changed constructor from

public A(String val){
this.val = val;
}

to

public A(String val){
this.setVal(val);
}

this feels bad in many ways, but need some arguments to convince him that its wrong

Once had a teammate who added
// @formatter:off (eclipse)

at the beginning of nearly each class, to make sure my auto-format on save does not ruin his nice formatting

as i usually let eclipse take care of this, i commited unformatted code by mistake

so he formatted my code by hand

i saw this and this is wrong in so many ways

public void saveFolder(FolderID folderid, FolderInfo folderInfo) throws DataAccessException {
FolderOrm folderOrm = load(FolderOrm.class, folderid);
}

Looking at old code i wrote.

Kinda all other devs translate incompetent with a lack of knowledge

i would go with not able to recognize his lack of knowledge

Story 1:
once we had a developer, whom was given the task to try out a REST/Json API using Java

after a week he presented his solution,
2 Classes with actual code and a micro-framework for parsing and generating JSON

so i asked him, why he didn't use a framework like jackson or gson, while this presentation he felt pretty offended by this question

a couple of weeks later i met him and he was full of thanks for me, because i showed him, that there are frameworks like that, and even said sorry for feeling offended

- no incompentence here -

Story 2:
once i had a lead dev, who was so self-confident, he refactored (for no reason but refactoring itself) half the app and commited without trying to compile/run test

but not only once, but on a regular basis

as you may imagine, he broke the application multiple times and blamed the other devs

- incompentence warning-

Story 3:

once i had a dev, which wanted to stay up with the latest versions of his libraries

npm update && commit without trying to compile/testing multiple times

- incompentence warning-

Story 4:

once i had a cto

* thought email-marketing is cutting edge
* removed test-systems completely to reduce costs
* liked wordpress
* sets vm to sleep without letting anyone know

- i guess incompetent alert -

Best userstory ever?

As CEO i want to small layout changes

actually my sis is really disappointed i can't do

* cash system programming
* cnc programming
* light show programming
* get the adress of the guy who wrote her on whatsapp

so she is curious what i am able to do :)

!rant

Just wanted to let you know that i discovered a cool site to test out angular,
https://stackblitz.com/

Pretty much like jsfiddle and co, but does the setup for you and the editor feels like VS Code

may be can be useful for some of you