Comments on: Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers

By: Ahsan Butt

Ahsan Butt — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:41:13 +0000

Excellent Article.
Keep up!

By: Nawaz

Nawaz — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:42:49 +0000

I totally agree with each and every word of the article. I’m pleased to read the symptoms of a passionate guy which you’ve listed – each one of them matches with my habits and activities which I do in my spare time and weekends.

By: Jeff Whelpley

Jeff Whelpley — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:50:33 +0000

Its funny, I came up with a very similar article premise, The 4 Characteristics of Highly Effective Developers, but my article takes a slightly different angle than yours. I like what you have here, though, and I agree with a lot of it. I think if I had to write my article again, I would definitely add passion. You make some good points on that. BTW, feel free to post a comment on my blog with a link back to yours as I think my audience (not as big as yours) would be interested in this.

By: Faith

Faith — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:08:11 +0000

Thanks for making this article, it really helpful. Those pointers are quite enough to help confused young programmers like me.

By: Khushi

Khushi — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:47:42 +0000

Nice article.. Will help the depressed or confused programmer to handal work

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:48:40 +0000

good points, Stevo

By: Stevo

Stevo — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:10:15 +0000

There are a couple (to start) of annoying clichés the programming profession. They are:

1. passion

2. the importance of communication skills

Regarding #1, please call it something else, like enthusiasm. I’m just tired of hearing passion and passionate when talking about programming. The word just sounds so out of context, like it belongs in a romance novel and not in programming blogs. However, the gist of what your saying is understood.

I believe that great software and not so great software is differentiated by the mundane tasks that programmers must do, and get paid to do. For example, tracking down that bug that only happens in the Japanese version of XP home when the folder name is greater than 256 chars. not too many people are enthusiastic about that kind of thing. This is one reason that free software will never equal purchased software in quality and usability.

By: Zenny

Zenny — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:56:38 +0000

Wow tnx. helped me a lot. especially the ego part.

By: pratidnya

pratidnya — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:02:37 +0000

very good article…
its tooo helpful for me….
thanks

By: Chintan

Chintan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:31:23 +0000

Good article !

keep posting.

By: lyn

lyn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:49:10 +0000

I agree!!! nice blog !!!

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:15:57 +0000

@Christian, I completely know the feeling that it can be very difficult to work on personal projects, especially with a demanding job, family life, and all the other commitments we all have. In the end, though, life should be lived and enjoyed. If you’re enjoying what you do, that’s what matters, even if you don’t have time for everything.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:05:42 +0000

While the Perl ‘virtues’ of laziness, impatience and hubris seemed amusing when I first heard them (a long time ago), I have since come to conclude that their opposites are a better representation of real virtues for programmers (and everyone else).

My programming virtues are:
- diligence
- patience
- humility

Glad to see that I’m not alone in my conclusion, as this article demonstrates.

By: Christian D

Christian D — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:59:58 +0000

Loved the article!

I’ve been starting to work on a different mindset that goes for being humble and adaptive, and I believe it’s the best way to deal with the kind of work enviroment we’re in.

The only thing I can’t still do is have personal projects. Not because I do not have ideas , I have a lot of ideas. But working sometimes stresses me out too much and when I come home I procrastinate easily on it, and when i feel like it, there’s never time for it. And I don’t know how to fix that.. Is anybody familiar with the feeling ?

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