ok, I’ve been working as a web developer for 3 years and this year I became a Team Leader for the development department in the company I work in. I specialize in C# and asp.net and windows applications but every single day there are new things coming up and I keep reading blogs and articles on new innovative technologies. The problem is that I don’t usually have time to learn about all these things and I can’t afford to take courses in them. They are so expensive.
I feel like I’m an ignorant and whenever I read people’s articles on the web about things they’ve created and achived, I feel left out. I’m good at work and I’ve created excellent web applications and my managers really love my work but I know there are so many professional programmers out there who really did great things and learned new things.
So I’m just asking you all software developers and programmers, how do you enhance your careers and become up to date with all these new technologies? what do you do exactly?
February 18, 2010
I Can’t Keep Myself Up To Date With All What’s New In Programming?
July 29, 2009
I Hired A Web Developer To Build A Site For Me In June 2007. To Date I Have Nothing To Show For It.?
When we first met, I explained that I am not a developer/web site designer and that I needed a company that would do 100% of the work. They agreed and said they would handle everything.
I met the lead developer and we worked together great. As Christmas came, I knew the site wasn’t going to be ready and that I was moving my business and didn’t want the site up until we relocated. I asked them to have everything they could done so we we resumed, it would be ready to roll.
July 2008: I called and said we were ready. I had a marketing plan and was sure that our peak season (Aug-Nov) would be its best ever. Well, it’s now 12-12-2008 and “I” have personally put in nearly 50 hours of work inputting items, descriptions, costs, weights of products and pictures. As it turns out, they didn’t even have the shipping modules ready. Needless to say, we missed the peak season. On November 5, they started working on another shipping module (flat rate UPS). Yesterday, we get an email stating it’s ready. Today I check it and guess what, it doesn’t work. In addition, by inputting the flat rate module, all the hundreds of prices I input are now incorrect and I can find a formula as to what is wrong.
I have already paid $1500 with $1000 due at time of launch. In addition, they have charged me about $750 for “add ons” that I didn’t think should be “add-ons” but for the cost, I was willing to turn my head and just push to get it done.
I have called the owner of the company (no return call as of today) to complain. I don’t ever use lawsuits as a source of revenue but they have charged me over $2000 for an inferior product (they use OS Commerce which I’ve learned is not a top notch product) and I will still owe them $$ when they launch. I estimate that I’ve spent $200 in marketing materials which I distributed to previous customers last week in hopes of salvaging some Christmas business since I was told it would be ready a week ago. Now, previous customers are going to get the ol’ “UNDER CONSTRUCTION” sign………….they won’t be back. I’ve estimated my losses in lost sales at 20-30k.
Do I have a lawsuit? What would you do?