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		James Stauffer James Stauffer is a senior software engineer for SPS Commerce. His 8 years there have been mostly maintaining and enhancing one Java enterprise web application. He wasted almost all of his money from high shool graduation gifts adding a 16 MB RAM chip to a Windows 3.11 machine that already had 4 MB and learned the important lesson of "right sizing". James Stauffer's blog What kind of programming work do you like best? Posted by staufferjames on January 23, 2008 at 12:18 PM PST When interviewing candidates (only 3-4 interviews) I would ask them the following question: What kind of programming work do you like best? They always gave then same basic answer: Creating new software. Since that isn't the answer that I would give I asked my co-workers and between 4 of us we had 3 different answers: Creating something new Debugging problems Improving (adding features, improving performance, etc). Would you give one of those answers? Do you have a different answer? » Login or register to post comments 217 visits Printer-friendly version Related Topics >> Programming Comments Comments are listed in date ascending order (oldest first) RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by staufferjames on Mon, 2008-01-28 09:42. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by gadominas on Thu, 2008-01-24 01:41. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by staufferjames on Wed, 2008-01-23 21:00. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by virtualrob on Wed, 2008-01-23 20:44. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by staufferjames on Wed, 2008-01-23 15:01. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by steveklewis on Wed, 2008-01-23 14:52. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by richunger on Wed, 2008-01-23 14:30. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Submitted by steveklewis on Wed, 2008-01-23 14:08. RED EYE OWNZ - by Z4i0n Login or register to post comments		Categories Programming Swing Open Source Tools JavaOne Performance Patterns Java Enterprise Archives September 2009 January 2008 December 2007 October 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 Recent Entries What kind of programming work do you like best? Zooming to better use desktop space Defaults have consequences: Microsoft Word margins