Tech proverbs #8. On fixing

The only way to fix something is to break everything.

Tech proverbs #4. Cron reports

Sometimes there are reports needed.  Daily,  weekly, monthly and etc..  If they are written in different scripts with no DRY mentality,  obviously something went wrong.

Tech proverbs #3. Tech but not tech

Some jobs offer a very technical field with technical requirements but not a tech company.  Tech culture is not present and a programmer usually suffers.

Tech proverbs #2. Replacement job

Never take a replacement job.  The guy who left for another job mostly has good reasons to leave.

You'll mostly end up following in the shadow of his code or cursing him for coding it as it is.

Tech proverbs #1

When dealing with database.  Dont insert historical or logs related manually in the code.  Create a trigger to insert to a table log when the main table is updated.  This is good for transaction histories involving money. #postgres