About code quality. How many of us actually have coding standards and a team that strive to meet them?
Originally shared by Chris Alexander
Oh how right this is 🙂
About code quality. How many of us actually have coding standards and a team that strive to meet them?
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Great article, and one which should make many managers squirm.
Indeed.
Cosw style can be checked before commit to repository. It is part of continuous integration. Is mostly use jshint, but for perfectionists exists jscs https://www.npmjs.org/package/jscs
We do use some code standards…
That section on personal issues hit a little too close to home for me. My son was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy four years ago and ever since I’ve experienced periods of unproductivity with each new crisis. First came a desperate search for a cure, of which there is none. This was followed by a drastic increase in medical expenses and debt. This resulted in moving to a better paying job in another city but we were unable to sell our house. We rented it out for almost a year until the tenant decided to stop paying rent. So after adding even more debt to pay for an eviction the house now stands empty and in disrepair costing us a small fortune while we are living in a small rental in another city. Then at the end of last year two things happened that only made matters worse. My employer changed insurance plans and my son went on a ventilator. The new insurance plan doubled my out of pocket expenses and the ventilator costs more to rent than the mortgage on my empty house.
Has this affected my work? You bet it has! I know it and I’m sure my manager knows it. I doubt he appreciates the extent of my personal struggles but he has been gracious enough thus far. It manifests not so much in poorly written code but in a general slowdown in productivity and a distinct lack of drive or enthusiasm. After all it’s hard to be enthusiastic about work when despite your best efforts you’re facing the very real possibility of sinking further and further in debt with no end in sight.
I see the same as you, Kenneth Cochran, i.e. that our personal issues takes priority over work, whether we want to or not.
When I was divorced, that put a real dent in my productivity, as well as my code quality.
I am sorry to learn of your troubles, and hope that you will be able to rent out or sell your empty house soon.
I wish I was able to offer you and your family a job over here, where your medical bills would go away as they are covered by the national health insurance system, but all I can do, is to wish you the best, and hope for some good news.
I have code standards, and morale standards and a lot of other ones. But thankfully, no team 🙂
Kenneth, very engaging comment. My best wishes! I’m trying to umu some zen your way.