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Rise of the specialist coder

Rise of the specialist coder

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When I started my career in software development over two decades ago there was no such thing as a specialist  coder.

Programmers as we were called in those days were required to do a mix of jobs. Gather business requirements, design the solution, code it and get it implemented. This included the graphic design, the end user training, etc. This attitude of “do it all” has served me well in my career. I have seldom been unable to solve any technical obstacle myself.

Today it is very different. Most developers specialize in front-end, back-end (server side) or ux (suer experience). Graphic design has diversified just as much.

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Software development is not about pumping out code

Software development is not about pumping out code

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How often have you seen a new mobile app or website being promoted? I guess pretty often. It seems everyone is a website designer or mobile app developer these days.

This is all fine, until your app hits the big time, then things goes wrong pretty quickly.

First, your server runs into performance issues because you built your app so fast you did not have time to do performance testing, or even design for performance. Then you start throwing more developers at the problem, but quickly realise that 9 developers cannot make a baby in one month.

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Generating code is the smart way

Generating code is the smart way

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I spend much of my day coding away furiously, mostly in Codeigniter (PHP, Javascript, jQuery & MySQL). The usual open source stuff.

field definitions

Most CRUD (create, read, update & delete) operations follows the same pattern of code.

There is a controller that drives the main functions, a list view (using the awesome datatables plugin) to show a table of data and a edit popup screen to create or modify the record. Then there is a delete and optional enable/disable function, together with maybe some additional tabs on the edit screen.

How hard can it be to combine all this into a code generator?

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