Giving Coding Advice...

I'm all for helping out my fellow coders when they're in a jam, but sometimes that advice can come back and cause you grief later.

It just so happens that this exact problem plagued me this last week at work. Sometime last week a coworker asked me for advice on what would be the best solution to the problem he was working on. At the time he asked I was already neck deep in a project of my own and didn't pay enough attention to his query to give a good response. In fact, I don't even really remember giving the advice at all.

So, later that week I'm given a project to put some customization into our product. As a template I took what my coworker had done and was adding in some extra customization options for the end users. As I'm going through his project and reworking it to fit my needs, I'm cursing under my breath at how he had done things. No good coder would have done it that way. So, needless to say I reworked it and then went to him to show him the better way of doing things. His response--'That's how you suggested to do it'. Needless to say I'm going to be careful in giving out coding advice in the future...