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Originally Posted by whisker15
Wow much drama, such betrayal......
Lik dis if yo cri evritiem. 
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If you're gonna do something,do it right.
such drama
much betrayal
wow
and yes, i cry every time.
Oh yes, the developer thingy.
Nowdays everybody is a developer. C'mon, lets be serious, if everybody is a developer then nobody is a developer. Simple as that.
If you stare enough at the word you'll notice something weird. It refers to people who develop ... stuff. When it comes to programming, developing in my own view is similar to being an architect. I talked about the mindset and i told you that you don't have the necessary mindset judging from your code and i'll get back to the topic soon, just need to explain something first.
Now, the real beauty of something created by an architect comes from the elegance of the final product. From the eye candy to the ease of use.
There are tree persons and one company i would like to highlight here.
There's you, Dark, who write raw code with no elegance. You just barge though all the checks, hardcode them and maybe pray you'll never have to extend that code in the future. It's messy and ugly, but that's expected from a beginner. However, when you were coding i was there to help you and not even once made me think that you may be a developer at some point.
There's me, who always tries to generalize my code up to the point that it becomes so complicated and hard to understand that i find it easier to recode it rather than upgrading the code. Nothing more to say here.
There's Yurneroo, who loooooves delegates. I swear to god that if delegates could materialize he would marry them. All of them. However, let's not forget that he actually coded the mapserver from scratch, and from what i've seen from his work he does tend to be a bit ... arrogant in his code too ^^. Don't hate Yurn, you know it's true.
Aaaand there's YNK, who made a mess out of everything they could get their hands to. Honestly, the database is a mess, written by a bunch of average coders who had no taste for elegance or at least proper indentation ( in some areas ).
To sum things up, a developer is a person with experience who can actually take something from scratch and do it better than it's predecessors, both for the users and fellow programmers.
Tell me now, who's a developer around here?
Do you think that just because you know some things about the game makes you a developer? Or that if you made a PvP Points system you're one of the pro guys now?
Cmon, a developer thinks large systems, a programmer thinks his own little area and a script kiddie steals from them.