[consulting] Cleaning Up After Bad Developers

[Fred Jones]

>> I also once saw something like that--where a developer sort of wrote
>> his own functionality in pure PHP with no Drupal API and then just
>> 'attached' it to Drupal. Twice I saw that in fact.
>
> I wonder if we were cleaning up after the same guy. Unlikely, I know...

LOL!

No, each was from different people.

>> Yeah, like Brainbench? Drupaldrench? Won't happen but it's a cute idea. :)
>
> My main concerns are that it would become:
>
> 1. valueless (too easy to obtain)

Just make it a hard test! :)

> 2. too expensive get / maintain (much more burden on new developers, or
> smaller businesses)

To get should be easy--just take the test, like Brainbench. To
maintain, YES, this is big expense--a LOT of work I think.

> 3. clients latch on and every posted job now requires this. If #2 were true
> as well, it makes it that
>   much tougher for new devs to get a start in this business.

Every job will not require it b/c many clients anyway want to pay $30
an hour if not $10-$20 so they have already shut themselves out of the
"certified" class I would think. Not to mention that a lot of clients
post on craigslist or who knows where that they want a website, not
necessarily Drupal

Then when we take over, we can explain that Drupal is an art and a
science and that turkey didn't know it but I do, and here's my proof.
:)