While I do agree with you – just to play devils advocate in a sense – Sometimes a script isn’t exactly the way I want it – so I need to create a different version. You gave the example of the seperating comments and trackbacks… I did that *just for me* – I wasn’t even going to publish it – since I’m pretty sure the html isn’t even valid – but a reader asked me to. There was nothing else already out there that did exactly that. But I’ll also do that sometimes anyway – just to have a place so I can easily refer back to my code. (I started my blog originally more for ME than anyone else – I’m selfish that way. LOL! I wanted a central “storage” place where I could always find my code… because I was always forgetting how to do something I had figured out only a few weeks before)
But I do agree with you that two people working on the same project is wasted effort. Personally I have more fun working WITH people on the SAME project – but that may just be me. Many of my scripts are turning out to be group efforts, where I’m integrating other people’s changes.
And um… not giving credit where it’s due… is just wrong.
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While I do agree with you – just to play devils advocate in a sense – Sometimes a script isn’t exactly the way I want it – so I need to create a different version. You gave the example of the seperating comments and trackbacks… I did that *just for me* – I wasn’t even going to publish it – since I’m pretty sure the html isn’t even valid – but a reader asked me to. There was nothing else already out there that did exactly that. But I’ll also do that sometimes anyway – just to have a place so I can easily refer back to my code. (I started my blog originally more for ME than anyone else – I’m selfish that way. LOL! I wanted a central “storage” place where I could always find my code… because I was always forgetting how to do something I had figured out only a few weeks before)
But I do agree with you that two people working on the same project is wasted effort. Personally I have more fun working WITH people on the SAME project – but that may just be me. Many of my scripts are turning out to be group efforts, where I’m integrating other people’s changes.
And um… not giving credit where it’s due… is just wrong.