When 'The Daily WTF' started up back in 2003/2004 it was a great laugh looking at shocking code other developers wrote, but after a bit it became repetitive and boring and a sad indictment of the industry.
Now on my contracting travels around the industry the people who continue to love and read this site definitely fall into the 'bad developer' bracket on the whole, why? Simple because they subconsciously believe this is the way the industry is and always will be and they find it comforting to their bad practices.
Example: This guy tries to ridicule TDD and the ideas behind such practices without regard for his own ability - Oh look there on his blog list 'The Daily WTF'...
Whether this story is true or not it highlights some of the issues for me - the WTF is not the air conditioning guy causing the system outage but the IT department building such a fragile system with no resilience that takes 36 hours to bring back online - if it took me that long to bring a system up I would be ashamed.
Awkward Coder
Friday, 6 November 2009
Bad developers love 'The Daily WTF'
Posted on 03:47 by Unknown
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