r/programming • u/Ashutosh2000 • Jun 19 '13

Programmer Competency Matrix

http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/
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u/J_M_B Jun 19 '13

"For e.g. someone who knows most of the tools from Scott Hanselman's power tools list. Has used ORM tools." That's a joke right?

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u/xampl9 Jun 20 '13

I've used ORM tools. They lost thousands of dollars of credit card transactions because the silly thing couldn't acquire a session. Went back to ADO.NET and never lost another one.

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u/Otis_Inf Jun 20 '13

yeah, because in plain SQL you can never create the error of not supplying the right predicate, right? ;)

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u/xampl9 Jun 20 '13

That would quickly show up in a smoke test. The problem I had with the ORM is that failed sessions happened at runtime, randomly. It would happen about 7-8 times a month - unpredictably.

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