Moving Beyond Copy Paste Coding
Or how not to Stack Overflow your way through your career
When is a developer considered a senior developer? I asked this of a friend a few weeks ago when a related topic bubbled up on Twitter.
His answer was surprising:
“You become a senior developer when you use Stack Overflow and stop caring about it.”
I remember when I was first picking up Ruby on Rails, I was regularly on Stack Overflow. A year later and I was still using Stack Overflow every day. I was looking up some of the same dumb syntax stuff I could not remember, but I was also looking up more complex questions. I guess you can consider that progress.
It has been over a year since I was with Stack Overflow leading the APAC region. Now I am with AWS working with startups in the same part of the world. In fact, one of the people I work with on the Developer Advocate team is a top user on Stack Overflow. How did he become a 0.01% user? By answering “amazon-web-services” questions, and with over 106K questions under that tag, there are plenty of opportunities to gain…
