Our friend and mild-mannered iconoclast, Jef Spaleta, wrote a funny parody of how to salvage a developer relationship, based on the concept of the “frenemy” from this article. Two of my favorite points that Jef reworked:
2. Keep a support system. “Make sure you have, or that you cultivate, other developers who are consistently positive and loving so you can remind yourself that a software developer relationship doesn’t have to be a love-hate relationship,”
3. Focus on the good. “If you really want to keep the love-hate software developer relationship going, make sure you remind yourself of the traits about the other software developer that are loving and why you want to keep the software developer relationship going, dwelling on the positive rather than the negative.”
