Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 18 11:30:48 CST 2011
Very interesting stuff Shamil. It is always hard when you have to justify a bill when you have just gone on site, looked at few things and then made a couple of small adjustments and now everything is working. The clients like to see more concern and effort and sometimes fixed something fast can be bad for you as a programmer. This of course why I like a flat rate type insurance-policy support contracts. Sometimes you are not paid for what you do but if you do it right, in the first place, it can go for months with little more than a status report and an invoice. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 4:19 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] OT: "I feel your pain, man!" or "Programmers are most effective when they avoid writing code..." Hi All, This and the other day I have read through and collected a set of links on articles I liked to read about our profession, authored mainly by John D. Cook (http://www.johndcook.com/blog/) and I'd like to share that links with you for your Friday/weekend reading: Enjoy! "... no matter how often you want to play the role of a hero, there will always be circumstances that test the limits of your ability to be one. It's difficult to judge when helping someone means doing something immoral, and it's even harder to admit you are unable to solve someone's problem - and chances are, that someone will view you as incompetent because you were unable to help them..." Your job is trivial. (But I couldn't do it.) http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/01/14/your-job-is-trivial-but-i-couldnt-d o-it/ Why Can't Programmers.. Program? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmers-program.html The buck stops with the programmer http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/19/the-buck-stops-with-the-programmer/ The dark side of linchpins http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/05/10/the-dark-side-of-linchpins/ Do you really want to be indispensable? http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/22/being-indispensable/ Where does the programming effort go? http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/18/where-does-the-programming-effort-g o/ Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/12/23/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-pro portion-to-their-productivity/ Whatever happened to programming http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/whatever-happened-to-programming/?Pro gramming The plumber programmer http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/15/plumber-programmers/ Programming the last mile http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/01/29/programming-the-last-mile/ It doesn't pay to be the computer guy http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/11/22/the-computer-guy/ 10 Reasons It Doesn't Pay To Be "The Computer Guy" http://www.lifereboot.com/2007/10-reasons-it-doesnt-pay-to-be-the-computer-g uy/ Why there will always be programmers http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/27/why-there-will-always-be-programmer s/ ... Thank you. -- Shamil -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com