You hit the nail on the head mate On Wednesday, 20 July 2016, Tony Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the early days of ReSharper there seemed to be a lot of benefit out of > using it, but the pain was increased instability when it was added to > Visual Studio - it used to crash Visual Studio frequently. Nowadays, it > does seem to be more stable, but with much less benefit. Many of the more > commonly used shortcuts actually have equivalents in plain old Visual > Studio itself. It is for that reason I actually don't bother. I will go > with whatever I am given. > > I do get the feeling that there is such a thing as a Resharper snob, > however. That is, people who will judge your level of technical competence > by whether you use Resharper or not. Not really fair IMO but hey, people in > this industry do have to find their egos somehow (and man, have I seen a > few ginormous egos in this industry. This is not aimed at you Preet, just a > general development comment.) So they can be a crap developer whether they > use it or not, but simply the association Resharper has with technical > ability and quality is transferred to the developer, possibly without > providing any concrete benefit, and improving others view of the developer > without merit.. > > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Stephen Price <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Not really much to add, but I do acknowledge you for taking an interest >> in your teams skill development. Its a rare trait. >> Sure you have a self interest in productivity, nothing wrong with that. >> >> Unfortunately theres a saying, you can lead a horse to water but you >> can't make it drink. Keep encouraging and you will get there eventually. >> There might be blocks like "just a job" developers or in the deep end >> junior devs etc. >> I have found code reviews are great for passing knowledge. Explaining >> what your code does is never a waste of time (i always spot things i can >> fix up or improve while explaining something) >> Invite them to user group meetings. >> >> End of the day you might just have a junior developer who is going to >> take years to get to where you imagine she should be. Remember thats your >> expectation not hers. >> >> So much for not much to add. Lol >> Good luck >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:48 AM +0800, "Preet Sangha" < >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >> Guys I wonder if I can ask for some advice please. >> >> I'm currently leading a project with a developer who originally came from >> a Delphi background but has been using visual studio (C++ and C#) for a few >> years now. However I'm finding that she doesn't seem to have much >> experience of many of the productivity features available in modern tools >> like visual studio, or the OS or office for instance. >> >> >> By these I mean even simple things like autoformating, intellisense (well >> some), keystrokes to comment/uncomment, snippets, or refactoring for >> instance. I even had to teach her to do auto build on starting execution >> (PF5 etc), or to use the keyboard to save or build. Things like resharper >> are a pipe dream it seems. I felt as though I was doing magic incantations >> when I started writing some unit tests... Nearly everything she does is >> sort of 'most manual way possible" it sometimes seems. >> >> Now generally I'm happy to let other do it their way but I find that her >> productivity is very low and I'm thinking part of it might be this factor. >> I know we all have different styles, and I'm far from dictating other use >> my style however I do feel that a modern developer should be aware of the >> capabilities of their development environments. If her productivity was OK >> I wouldn't care how she used whatever tool. >> >> What I'd like to do is encourage her to do some directed training that >> would help her productivity and thus personal development. I've tried >> putting together some Pluralsight (it's paid for by our employers so it's >> always there) playlists for her, but I get the "I did some of the training, >> and then stopped to get some work done". I've been more than happy for her >> to actually do the courses lowering the workload for this reason. >> >> I'd really like her to get the best out of her tools and not be >> hamstrung. Can anyone with experience of this kind of thing tell how how >> perhaps I could approach this in a more positive way please? >> >> Preet. >> > >
