Is the gap between "good developers" and "bad developers" getting wider?
At one end of the scale we have people like my former colleague Glenn ( http://vanderburg.org/Blog ) who are doing such esoteric software stuff that I am not even sure what he is talking about anymore... things like "domain specific languages" i.e. to solve the problem, first write a new programming language optimised for that problem domain... okay...
and at the other end we have the vendor who coded this:
Select column1 from table1 where userid=varLoginUser
Select column2 from table1 where userid=varLoginUser
Select column3 from table1 where userid=varLoginUser
Select column4 from table1 where userid=varLoginUser
Select column5 from table1 where userid=varLoginUser
which took 140ms to run when "Select column1, column2, column3, column4, column5 from table1 where userid=varLoginUser" took 15ms...
Sure, rubbish code has always been with us but i just have the sense that the gap is getting wider not narrower... that despite the fact that we have a wealth of coding standards, patterns and practices at our finger tips (just Google it) and that languages and development environments are more powerful than ever that power is delivering more dross not less.
What do you all think?
So what else does Operations do? Well, there is a whole organisation run by the UK govermnent to help answer that question! ITIL , or the IT Infrastructure Library, is a library of best practice information that basically tells you everything you need to do to run an IT department. Similarly developers have development methodologies such as RAD, JAD, Agile/XP, and Project Managers have PM methodologies such as Prince 2, PMBok etc to cover off their areas in more specific detail. ITIL breaks it down into 7 key areas: Service Support - deals with the actual provision of IT services such as the service (help) desk, incident management, problem management, release management etc Service Delivery - deals with ensuring that you can continue to DELIVER the service support functions with things like contigency planning, capacity management, service levels etc The Business Perspective - helps to ensure that the IT function is aligned with the organisation's business strategy and that how to
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