Correspondent from Reno, Nevada
Joining this blog is our new correspondent from Reno, Nevada. He owns small software business developing Delphi software.
Howdy there!
I've been reading this blog and gotta say - this is one hell of a blog with all the bluebells and whistle-blowing. I want to add my 2¢ to this blog and I'm madder than ever about this recession and mess with Delphi. Today I wanted to gripe about hiring developers in my area.
Last week I was watching 'Hard Core Pawn - New Hire. Now Fire!' The synopsis of that episode is one of the managers, Ashley hires a new person but that person takes things for her own personal usage. When confronted, the new hire lies about it, cusses everyone and get fired.
Watch the show. You can find it on NetFlix or Cable or Hulu or YouTube (search: "Hard Core Pawn, this week"). Then come back and read the rest of this commentary.
Hiring Delphi Developers
Hiring Delphi developers is a bit like hiring people who have no ethics and integrity. Instead of "what can I do for you", they expect employers to buy them plenty of components for them, buy this, buy that and drown in morasses of failure.
Delphi developers usually come late to work due to constant monitoring of the newsgroups or the vendor's forums or warez forums. There were several developers your correspondent fired for accessing warez forums during office-hours in your correspondent's office. The time-clock reports lateness and early leaves. The internet filter your correspondent used caught those illegal accesses. When confronted, they denied it. Since they denied it, they were given a pink-slip reward for their honesty. It becomes ridiculous when everyone else comes early and the late ones are ...
Delphi developers often want employers to buy this, buy that. When your correspondent refuses to buy these things, they lame around saying that they cannot use Nevrona Report Writer, Indy and IntraWeb. Why shouldBoneHeadLand err Borland Embarcadero bundle this with Delphi? In this recession every dime and dollar counts. Can Lombardo price cheaper professional edition without a starter US$1,000 limit for employers who hire Delphi developers?
Delphi developers needs better training. For many years, your correspondent uses ProMetrics employer services. There are now Delphi certified tests but no training materials? Go downtown to Borders (oops, that's closed down) or Amazon. Browse the Certified Microsoft Training section. There are plenty of books and self-assessment guides. Check for Delphi. Zip. Nadda.
If your correspondent gives a ProMetrics C# test to a new C# hire, they usually get 80% percentile and hired immediately. Due to scarcity of Delphi assessment tests, your correspondent home-brew one up using a PHP script and gave unique links to new hires to complete. Almost everyone funked it. It was the easiest test any Delphi developer could have taken.
Delphi UML and ORM. Your correspondent is madder waiting for a working version of Bold. How long does people actually wait to get an update. Four years, five years... ?
Delphi XE2 came out but it costs money to upgrade. The World Tour is an annual high-pressure sales seminar. Is there equipment leasing or refunds? For example, the new hire screws-up or the project eventually fails and have to re-do it in C# ASP.NET.
When you love Delphi so much, it turns to hate when things start to turn south.
God bless you'all,
Someone from Reno, Nevada.
Joining this blog is our new correspondent from Reno, Nevada. He owns small software business developing Delphi software.
Howdy there!
I've been reading this blog and gotta say - this is one hell of a blog with all the bluebells and whistle-blowing. I want to add my 2¢ to this blog and I'm madder than ever about this recession and mess with Delphi. Today I wanted to gripe about hiring developers in my area.
Last week I was watching 'Hard Core Pawn - New Hire. Now Fire!' The synopsis of that episode is one of the managers, Ashley hires a new person but that person takes things for her own personal usage. When confronted, the new hire lies about it, cusses everyone and get fired.
Watch the show. You can find it on NetFlix or Cable or Hulu or YouTube (search: "Hard Core Pawn, this week"). Then come back and read the rest of this commentary.
Hiring Delphi Developers
Hiring Delphi developers is a bit like hiring people who have no ethics and integrity. Instead of "what can I do for you", they expect employers to buy them plenty of components for them, buy this, buy that and drown in morasses of failure.
Delphi developers usually come late to work due to constant monitoring of the newsgroups or the vendor's forums or warez forums. There were several developers your correspondent fired for accessing warez forums during office-hours in your correspondent's office. The time-clock reports lateness and early leaves. The internet filter your correspondent used caught those illegal accesses. When confronted, they denied it. Since they denied it, they were given a pink-slip reward for their honesty. It becomes ridiculous when everyone else comes early and the late ones are ...
Delphi developers often want employers to buy this, buy that. When your correspondent refuses to buy these things, they lame around saying that they cannot use Nevrona Report Writer, Indy and IntraWeb. Why should
Delphi developers needs better training. For many years, your correspondent uses ProMetrics employer services. There are now Delphi certified tests but no training materials? Go downtown to Borders (oops, that's closed down) or Amazon. Browse the Certified Microsoft Training section. There are plenty of books and self-assessment guides. Check for Delphi. Zip. Nadda.
If your correspondent gives a ProMetrics C# test to a new C# hire, they usually get 80% percentile and hired immediately. Due to scarcity of Delphi assessment tests, your correspondent home-brew one up using a PHP script and gave unique links to new hires to complete. Almost everyone funked it. It was the easiest test any Delphi developer could have taken.
Delphi UML and ORM. Your correspondent is madder waiting for a working version of Bold. How long does people actually wait to get an update. Four years, five years... ?
Delphi XE2 came out but it costs money to upgrade. The World Tour is an annual high-pressure sales seminar. Is there equipment leasing or refunds? For example, the new hire screws-up or the project eventually fails and have to re-do it in C# ASP.NET.
When you love Delphi so much, it turns to hate when things start to turn south.
God bless you'all,
Someone from Reno, Nevada.
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3 comments:
Hallo!
We are the neighbors ... Let's give you a hearty welcome.
Allow us to present our welcome gift for the house warming party, the best Delphi Training video ever - the Toy Story.
God bless you too!
Michael
True story!
Ask a Delphi programmer to implement a simple design pattern - Factory, Strategy, etc. 95% of them will fail because they don't know a fuck about design patterns. Even for the simplest ones, like Singleton.
Ask them about DI, TDD, etc. Nope!
Encryption? A basic XOR algo? Ref counting? Pointer arithmetic?
Nowadays, the Delphi programmers are the worst programmers out there. And all this because of the fucked Delphi mentality "Put two buttons on a form. Hit F9. Voila, we have a working app".
MS have a dedicated "patterns & practices" team, thousand of bloggers, including Corporate Vice President (ScottGu), Senior Program Manager (Phil Haack), Channel9 with countless number of videos, podcasts, book, tutorials, etc... All pushing the latest frameworks, patterns and best practices.
In the Delphi world, well... there is Marco Cantu, pushing basic examples and promoting spaghetti code :)
Techguy - Assuming you are right and an article today in the MSDN Magazine with a short introduction on RAD vs. the power to create BBMs (Big Balls of Mud) we could assume that Codegear is the (Business) Entity Mud Ball Tools. In short (B)EMBT.
Ok in MSDN Magazine they talked more about VB and the missing will of the developers to make use of OO techniques, but 10 years later just accepting OO and not patterns can of course lead to another generation of BBM.
So it's a true story!
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