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title: "How to get good developers"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/6/13/how-to-get-good-developers.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/6/13/how-to-get-good-developers.html"
published: "2008-06-13T18:35:15"
updated: "2008-06-13T18:35:15"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Hmm. I'm going to apply just to see what happens. On second thought, I'll just try to solve it in .NET and blog it, so I can prove to all of you that I am a such a bad coder, it's not even funny (which is why I have…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# How to get good developers

By Roy Osherove June 13, 2008

**Historical article** · Originally published June 13, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

Hmm. [I'm going to apply](http://dotspots.com/challenges.html) just to see what happens. On second thought, I'll just try to solve it in .NET and blog it, so I can prove to all of you that I am a such a bad coder, it's not even funny (which is why I have unit tests!)

I'm going to do that all in TDD

now, if only I could figure out what the email is from this:

`Y2hhbGxlbmdlQGRvdHNwb3RzLmNvbQo`\=


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### Contact

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/