Developers Who Quack Like Ducks
Development by association
Mediocrity flourishes without being detected — Jim Camp- Start with No
If a developer quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck, then everyone thinks it’s a duck.
Good developers love development, work hard and strive to improve. The conundrum for good developers is how do the bad developers do without being found out.
How do cowboy developers not only survive but often thrive?
I see many people wearing developer badges, but doing baffling things a developer would never do.
Just because someone is called a developer, hired as a developer, it doesn’t make them a developer.
Writing code doesn’t make a person a developer. Creating software doesn’t make you a developer.
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” by Martin Fowler
Being a developer is a way of thinking. It's about being professional and following the development process.
