Joe Philllips

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	550 reputation	bio	website		visits	member for	2 years, 8 months
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Jan 18	comment	My boss has a bad case of “Not Invented Here” One problem I see with this argument is that the happiness of the developers are at stake. This is never factored in to these business decisions. It seems like it always costs the business in the end by losing experienced devs.
Nov 23	answered	When should I make the first commit to source control?
Oct 25	answered	“Never do in code what you can get the SQL server to do well for you” - Is this a recipe for a bad design?
Sep 9	awarded	Yearling
May 6	answered	Testing an IRC Bot
Apr 14	comment	Is it just me or is this a baffling tech interview question? "Would you please explain to me the algorithm you would use to traverse a clown?"
Jan 29	comment	As a Junior Software Engineer should I say that something has been done wrong if I feel so? Just fix it. People write crap code under a time crunch
Sep 10	awarded	Yearling
Jul 14	answered	What would be a good name of practices you don't (usually) learn at university?
Jul 8	comment	Co-worker renamed all of my queries @Jim Maybe the OP is the newb?
May 25	comment	How to apologize when you have broken the nightly build Tell them you were just testing to make sure the build process worked properly.
May 10	comment	“Do you have any questions for us?” In an interview There are a lot of things that you simply don't think about until after the fact. Obviously the most prevalent questions are those that concern you the most from your last job.
Apr 14	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 14	answered	How can I get programmers to stop writing code vulnerable to SQL injection?
Mar 4	comment	What do you do when you encounter an idiotic interview question? @Tom But Scanner doesn't actually do any IO does it? It uses other IO elements to do the IO for it. You could use Scanner without using any IO right? (ie. a string)
Mar 2	answered	Stuff you should have learned in school but didn't pay attention to at the time
Dec 4	awarded	Nice Answer
Oct 19	comment	Make a big deal out of == true? This may be a good or bad argument depending on the level of automated tests that are written
Oct 13	answered	What would be in your ideal “hacker cafe”?
Sep 28	comment	Should I accept a job if pair programming is required? Pair programming should be used on difficult tasks. That's when you're saving money and time. Otherwise it's kind of a waste. I like it though.