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I used to work in a small agency that did websites and Phonegap apps, and the senior developer was awful.

He had over a decade of experience, but it was the same year of experience over and over again. His PHP was full of bad practices:

- He'd never used an MVC framework at all, and was resistant to the idea, claiming he was too busy. Instead he did everything as PHP pages
- He didn't know how to use includes, and would instead duplicate the database connection settings. In EVERY SINGLE FILE.
- He routinely stored passwords in plain text until I pretty much forced him to use the new PHP password hashing API
- He sent login details as query strings in a GET request
- He couldn't use version control, and he couldn't deploy applications using anything other than FTP

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  • 4
    No version control...

    If you had the misfortune of working on the same project with him, I bet you guys are always asking which files you have open. You wouldn't want to overwrite eachother's changes.
  • 3
    @Highwind No, thank goodness. He generally stuck to his own projects and me to mine
  • 4
    How can you not know how to use includes.

    There’s literally nothing to understand?!
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    @SSDD Come to think of it, that is truly bizarre. Includes are the first thing I learned in PHP. Even programming as a whole.
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