Sometimes you meet a coder from the wild west. He is highly prized by business and despised by his peers – enter the cowboy coder!
- Usually home grown.
- Works alone.
- Pushes features out at a tremendous rate.
- Hates process.
- Lives for the lime light and pleasing his superiors.
- Does not believe in structure or design. Design and testing is for the weak. Action now – action always!
- He is the klingon coder with the keyboard of the warrior coder, kahless.
- This guys knows all the shortcuts and have explanations and arguments for everything.
- In reality only knows enough about each topic to be dangerous.
- You are questioning his honor by reviewing or testing his work.
- Testers quiver in fear to log a bug in his name.
- His work is kept together with magic from the dark arts.
- No one wants to work in his domain.
- No one can work in his domain.
- Business fears for the day he leaves.
- Once he leaves, his work becomes monuments, everyone hoping it will withstand the winds of time.
- but…. Business loves him.