Secure programming

Evil Phil

Often people's coding at home is dabbling and relying on what people have taught themselves for fun, for a production piece of software is not a good idea.

- Kevin

Hmmm. I can see where you're coming from there, but a lot of the code I write at home is in languages that I already know(i.e. vb and java). Now if I started coding in delphi my code wouldn't be production standard but it would be a lot better than a newbie's code. I have the experience to know between good and bad. :cool:

However, dabbling at home is a good way to get the proverbial foot in the door of a new skill. Hopefully you'll then start to get paid to improve.

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Originally posted by Trojan
Hey P! Just want to clear up a some confusion!
Here's where we go off-track: yes, the company should train me, but no training course is going to teach me what hours of coding at home will. If I undergo their training alone, I will probably be able to do my job, and that's great.

But I am in charge of my own career, including making myself look good for advancement, for getting on good projects, and making myself look as attractive a hire as possible. I need to develop skills and update with new technologies as much as possible. Coding at home lets me do that.

Oh yea,
I agree with you there.
There's nothing wrong with someone doing that.
Companies shouldn't rely on the person who's dabbled with PHP to write a content management system for example. He/she should be trained up or someone else should be brought in unless they can show adequate campability.

Also don't forget that a lot of open source stuff is production quality, and most of it was written in the days before corporations starting sponsoring it.. it was the hackers at home.

Well yea,
I don't think most things people do would be to that same quality though.

- Kevin

ecksor

Here's a step in the right direction

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,63323,00.asp