Two Programmers
Every software development company, no matter how small, should have at least two programmers. Or one programmer and a boss of sorts who used to be a coder and has time to review code. Or one programmer and an external mentor of sorts. Or something. And that something better include code reviews. Otherwise, you are liable to end up with developers who write terrible code forever more.
Although I agree that there are some brilliant programmers out there, even those guys get tired now and then. And when you’re tired or distracted, the simple solutions seem to get missed. Hense the need for code reviews. And the problem with the less-brilliant developers is that some of them will continue to make gross errors even after they’ve been coding for many years. So help stop bad coding by implementing good practices like code reviews; for the good of users everywhere.
Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:27 Posted in Programming
