Good Behaviors
Rawin Viruchpintu
for Developers
Who I am ?
Rawin Viruchpintu Creative Technology Manager Palomar Systems / Spriiing
BlackBerry Developer Vervata
Research Assistant NECTEC
Outline • What's developer ?
• Developer Levels
• Skills
• Around Dev
• With … ?
• Conclusion
What's developer?
• A person who is involved in writing software.
It is mostly used as another term for programmer.
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Level of Devs
Junior developer Senior developer
Level of Devs
Senior developer
Experience Problem solving
Self learning
Communication skill
Performance
Teamwork Vision
Domain knowledge Time estimation
Junior developer
Responsibility
Skills
Wide Deep
Webservices HTML5
Java C++
database
Python Ruby
Web technology
noSQL
REST HTML5
jQuery
Around dev
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Customers
Marketing
QA/Testers
Developers
Manager
Customers
With … [ Customers ]
• Listen to a user who complains your products.
• Any product was designed for customers, Not for developers
• Don't make them think !
– Intuitive
– Easy to learn/use/remember/ and forget!
– Fast response
• Open mind for negative feed back and smile
With … [ Marketing ]
With … [ Marketing ]
• Translate your binary logic to simple words
• Marketing can tell what is the product value
• Tell them about alternative solutions with
restrictions/conditions.
• Summarize overall concept into a (good) picture
• Deliver on time!
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With … [ QA / testers ] ?
With … [ QA / testers ]
• Clear communication (check list will be useful)
• Defensive coding (check exception, logging)
• Good error messages
• Everything must be failed, know it early
• Failed early is cheap, Failed lately is expensive
• More code -> More tests • Mistakes are normal, correct it clever is a point
• Tester is a best friend, not your enemy !
sudo With … [ Developers ]
Programmer produces code
he believes is bug-free.
sudo With … [ Developers ]
• Find solutions first, Don't start with creating something
(Don't reinvent the wheel)
• Avoid labor-intensive techniques
• Learn good designs
• Every element needs to be (unit) tested
• Write code for reusing
• Comments
• Share your ideas, solutions, mistakes
With … [ Manager ]
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With … [ Manager ]
• Analyze problem first
• Talk only what you know the real facts,
Not what you think you know
• Alarm first -> no Surprise!
• Always manage your time with top priority.
• Tell the facts, root cause and good solutions
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With … [ Yourself ]
• Keep Learning
• Read, read, read and try to do
• Focus, Focus and Focus
• Summarize often Write a sentence to describe your work every day on a calendar
• Don't believe until you can prove by yourself
• TODO list with priority
Conclusion
THANK YOU
@windygallery