The Anti Team
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Jeremy Miller has an excellent post the Anti Team. I thought I would add a few team members to the mix:

  • The New Guy - not the newest guy in the team, but the one who is always two steps ahead of everyone else, keep insisting that we should re-write the entire system in XYZ technology of the day. Will go to an event and come back talking excitedly about all the new stuff that is Right Around The Corner.
    Memorable quote:
    The new guy; "If you used Ajax, it would be much better".
    Me: "Um... for the ETL processes??"
  • The clinger - cling to the techniques and processes that were abandoned long ago, even though he knows they are bad. That is what he knows, and he doesn't like change. The clinger will listen carefully to any instruction about better approaches than the hundred line methods and triple nested case statements then politely ignore whatever you just said to go back to The Way We Used To Do It.
    Memorable quote:
    The clinger: "It works and I like it."
    Me: "Yes... but the CC anaylzer is throwing integer overflow errors"
  • The blind - can program reasonably well, as long as there aren't any obstacles in his path. The moment that something is not in order, the blind is incapable of handling it and panics.
    Memorable quote:

    The blind: "It broke again"
    Me: Why?
    The blind: I don't know.

  • That OSS Guy - Grumbles constantly when using closed source products, spends a considerable amount of time hacking various open source projects. Go to sulk in the corner when he cannot use his favoriate OSS library for a project.
    Hm... that reminds me of someone...
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