> You're not paid to write code, you're paid to think. This is one of the first things new hires on my team hear from me. It's a nice concise way of saying I don't care how quickly you finish the task, if its poor code it's as useful as a
I am an enormously self-critical person. If I'm going out to a party, or having dinner, or even just giving a presentation, I'm constantly playing back my speech and my actions in my head to see where I went wrong. It sounds like two awful television sports announcers who follow
The Golden Hammer anti-pattern (formally and originally called the Law of the Instrument [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument]) is an over-reliance on a familiar tool. The gist of this anti-pattern is summed up as "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I've only held three full-time software development jobs since graduating from college, including my current one. The second one was supposed to be my big breakthrough, my time to shine and become part of a well-oiled team of kickass programmers. That was not what happened. What actually happened was six
NOTE: I wrote a more-updated version of this post over here [https://exceptionnotfound.net/big-ball-of-mud-the-daily-software-anti-pattern/]. A big ball of mud [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud] is a software system that lacks a perceivable architecture. The term appears to have been coined by computer scientists Brian Foote