No, I Will Not Write Code For You!
Every week or two I get a random email from some developer asking me to write code for them. Here’s a typical one:
hello sir,
this is sanjiv from india , i ve gone through resume ,and i got yr mail id from there………
i am PHP/Mysql developer in one of india based company.
actually i ve some problem in php…?
the problem is when i want to read any kind of resume which are in (Doc with tabular format) format,after reading that resume i want to print any page ,the format of that previous resume have been destroy.
if u ve any solution of this problem plz give me
i will be very-very thankfull for that
i am PHP/Mysql developer in one of india based company.
actually i ve some problem in php…?
the problem is when i want to read any kind of resume which are in (Doc with tabular format) format,after reading that resume i want to print any page ,the format of that previous resume have been destroy.
if u ve any solution of this problem plz give me
i will be very-very thankfull for that
I could rant all day on this, but I won’t. Can’t spell, can’t be bothered to use real words, can’t be bothered to actually solve the problem. And he’s getting paid for this?
Another one posted his code, his database table schemas, and his database as a blog comment and asked me to make major changes to it.
Bah! We get this kind of thing all the time too. They used to be for all sorts of random issues, now that we have emurse though, its pretty much this guy and all his cousins i think ;)
Lots of programmer hack-types out there, I guess.
Best,
Alex Emurse.com
Comment by Alex Rudloff — 12/30/2006 @ 9:58 am
Let me take a wild guess here and suggest the guy who posted his code and database design didn’t have the foggiest idea what he was doing.
Comment by Douglas Clifton — 12/30/2006 @ 9:11 pm
Ah yes — but did he post the username, password and server name?
Comment by Joe Grossberg — 1/2/2007 @ 12:30 pm
This is pretty common in forums for the products that I specialise in - people come along and ask for the solutions to their problems when it is pretty clear that they haven’t looked at the documentation in the slightest (there are usually examples that solve the problems). If you answer with some pointers to relevant reading, they still ask for the specific lines of code - nothing annoys me more!
I had a new one this week, a guy who contacted me based on my involvement with a project from 4 or 5 years ago… asking me to help him to setup Apache and PHP on a Chinese version of Linux… which was nothing to do with that project in the first place! rolls eyes sigh
Comment by andyp — 1/3/2007 @ 1:26 am