Monday, 13 August 2012

Do you like to read others code?

Two of my teammates are struggling to get a framework working.

I caught the following discussion in the air, we are all sitting in a big "island":

Developer: oooh, it was pain in the neck to find how to use this maven plugin, we had to look into the source(!) to see how it works

(their task is to research, they don't have strict deadline)

Boss: fortunately you're developers who understand Java source code

Lead: this sucks...

I would be happy in such a situation, it's amazing to explore something new.

In my opinion, it is a big personal success, when you understand others code, and the framework in use - even you don't have any documentation...


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