So I'm working with a company right now who split up with a partner of theirs who was also their code writer. He comes in today to fix some problems he caused with the db transfer and low and behold he starts making smart ass remarks about my ideas for the site.

My ideas were (remove the Iframes and condense the sites, clean up the code, use some cfc's for some of their queries they request a lot).

He then goes and starts to say how shitty my code is... here's how this went...

Him "Your code is horrible, you don't indent, I mean look you caps half the query commands and the others you don't. Where did you learn how to code?!"

I look at the code and realize it's not my code at all. It's his. So I go

Me "What are you talking about? That's YOUR code."

He got up and left.

4/5/2006 1:20:13 PM

i'm glad you said something

half of tww would have just mumbled something until he left and then made a thread about it

4/5/2006 1:26:16 PM

About once a week I find sections of code where I have to call someone out in the company that has been here for a lot longer than I have (some of them near or above 10 years).

Of course, most of these guys are physics PHds and had to "learn" coding as they went so I am never really surprised by how assinine the coding is.

4/5/2006 1:31:20 PM

hehe there was more to the story too. I was somewhat concerned with my clients since they didn't know what the hell was going on.

I printed out 4 pages. 3 pages of his code, 1 page of mine.

He had done 30 some identical queries except for the where clause and named them Query1, query2 and so on. The where clause was a specific date.

He told THEM that it was the ISP's problem that the page took so long to load. There are like 15-16 pages like this that i know of.

4/5/2006 1:46:21 PM

$/loc

4/5/2006 1:47:46 PM

^^ wait this guy writes code for a living?

4/5/2006 2:19:20 PM

i thought we already had a thedailywtf thread?

4/5/2006 2:24:55 PM

haha

referring to sql queries as coding

4/5/2006 2:29:48 PM

haha

4/5/2006 4:42:14 PM

lol okay okay. I webcode and do SQL. I'm not a true Code Monkey that can write FORTRAN in his sleep. (I know some of you know fortran!)

4/5/2006 6:05:20 PM

its ok

Lokken gets PAID to "code" in SQL

so do I for that matter.


thats all that counts really... doesn't it?

4/5/2006 8:54:25 PM

Raige's posts are usually good for a laugh, if nothing else...

4/6/2006 3:59:21 AM

and every time someone asks me what i do for a living

i say clinical programmer

but without the programmer

4/6/2006 9:29:54 AM