Rules for Beginning Developers & the People who Manage Them
Posted by jonpape | Filed under Business, Internet Marketing, Usability
Inspired by the blog “1,001 Rules for My unborn Son” I decided to create 10 rules for beginning web developers and the people who manage them.
- Never criticize someone who emails you in all caps. They usually own their own business.
- Its better to quit a project early then work for poor management.
- Always setup domain nameservers ASAP.
- Resumes will never tell you how good a web developer is. If a web developer can’t show you sites they have worked on, it’s a bad sign.
- Developers often underestimate how long it will take to communicate ideas to laymen.
- You’re doing something wrong if you have to write the same code twice.
- Always check the domain before you email someone you don’t know or reply to an email.
- If you put something back together after you tore it apart, left over screws are usually OK. Left over wires are bad.
- Websites don’t live in a vacuum. If search engine can’t index a website it better be really, really cool.
- Never read a computer book that is over 5 years old.
