Comments on: Older Developers: Bad Habits Are Killing Your Career

By: Lava Kafle

Lava Kafle — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:02:33 +0000

Nice Article for old developers, programmers, scientists, and fellowmen.

By: Debbie Hildreth

Debbie Hildreth — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:52:25 +0000

I like your message and appreciate your style. Thank you!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:51:45 +0000

Maybe older developers develop bad habits like not writing comments or not writing documentation or not learning new stuff.

But “Good” older developers do not have these habits to begin with. That is what actually makes them good.
In fact, your points are completely invalidated when it comes to good developers. They became good by avoiding those habits in the first place.

What might affect older developers is that the new lot has a load of fresh ideas and enthusiasm that comes with a younger age, not just the biological age but the age of a career.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:03:43 +0000

“Picking up a new technology” != “Mastering a technology”, and in 9 weeks, surely you can grasp the fundamental syntax of just about any language working on it part time, every work day. That’s what the habit forming work is about.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:00:52 +0000

Not sure what you guys saw with the layout…it seems OK now.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:16:10 +0000

Pick up a new technology or language in nine weeks? I guess that’d depend on the technology or language, but nine weeks isn’t very much time, and it’s not like you can spend eight hours a day doing it.

By: PatrickKanne

PatrickKanne — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:09:45 +0000

I loved the 5 myths article, but this is indeed a valuable appendix. Good on you not to shy away from criticism.

thanks for sharing

By: SM

SM — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:40:46 +0000

What happened to the layout site?

By: jd

jd — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:20:25 +0000

Your layuot is tatally crapped…

By: Tony Morris

Tony Morris — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:06:27 +0000

Hasty generalisation. What a load of nonsense.