"As long as I will continue practicing, every line of code will eventually seem clumsy or bad, but it does not prevent to create masterpieces. So all I have to do is to focus on the current project and try to do it as good as I am currently able to."

"Actually the precise fact that we decide to tackle a problem on our own instead of sharing the load with the team is a failure; this is the behavior of hero programmers."

"A professional developer would have opened a ticket for the issue, maybe he would also had a quick look at the code to find a hint of the cause. He would have discussed the issue and its solutions with the rest of the team, teaching the juniors by the way on how to handle this case. He would have let the producer prioritize the story, then he would have reported to the customer that his issue was going to be fixed in the version X of the software. We should be this developer."

"When we think that we can handle something better alone than with the team, when we think that we are the pivotal point of the team, we should take a break, go find a teammate and ask him to give us a huge kick in the butt."

"Actually our job is to be reliable, far before being nice or friendly. Our job is to provide a product of an expected quality in a controlled cost, even if it means that we sometime have to refuse to help someone we wish we could. Just refuse nicely."

Excellet article, plein de réflexes à acquérir pour devenir un bon développeur !