You Don’t Have Enough To Do

Replacing Developers with Perl Scripts

Noticias externas — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:09:35 GMT

It’s important that as a new developer you do not succumb to a mind numbing repetitive task. One, you

Replacing Developers with Perl Scripts

CoolBeans: From College to Industry — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:06:48 GMT

It’s important that as a new developer you do not succumb to a mind numbing repetitive task. One, you’ll

Give Me a Promotion

CoolBeans: From College to Industry — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:14:33 GMT

How do you ask your boss in a pleasant, non-confrontational way and with 100% no risk of any consequences

re: You Don’t Have Enough To Do

candice — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:46:01 GMT

Good point. The last time I was working on big software we did have to deal with regression test stuff. It's always interesting to see how various shops work like that.

I work for two very small software companies these days, so I don't have the not enough work problem anymore.

re: You Don’t Have Enough To Do

Chris Becker — Mon, 07 May 2007 02:20:45 GMT

Hi Candice!

Yes and no. I do find myself looking at other bugs and even commenting on them. But taking bugs off of other people's plates can be counter productive if a) they were working on it or b) you really don't know how to fix it.

Here at MS we do have a way to assign a bug to "Active" under a certain category and these are up for grabs. But we still need to have a Program Manager say we want to fix the bug in the product. Fixing every bug leads to code churn which leads to regressions, so you need to be sure you're fixing the right set of bugs.

re: You Don’t Have Enough To Do

candice — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:36:56 GMT

Isn't that just a case of "go look at the bug database and pick stuff?"

Which I got told as a co-op years and years ago...

(Also, hi. It's been years.)

re: You Don’t Have Enough To Do

Adam — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:04:00 GMT

I completely agree with that, I have had a bunch of coops where your managers just neglect giving you work to do. Asking does help, but even then sometimes they say "I will get back to you" and never do or just don't have anything to give you. That's a rough position to be in, trust me, I've been there. The internet does get really boring after a couple days.