Looks more like "Check that one developer at the company you're using hasn't angered another and decided that the most professional way to deal with this problem is to wax-childlike in your publicly available code" to me...
Whatever jimbob did wrong pales in comparison to that, IMHO.
Jimbob needs a lesson in the way he is expected to decide upon specifications before coding; Whoever wrote that in client's code needs to take a bruised arse down to the back of the queue at the local unemployment office.
> I'm just sick of the shortcuts and "user-friendly" approaches to creation. I feel more lost than if I were to learn the fundamentals. I never get the questions I actually want answered, answered.
Depending on who says it, that could mean anything. Can we have some examples? Lest we send you off on a wild-goose chase learning every last detail of some huge trendy framework, only to discover you were meaning something that takes 5 lines of PHP...
Whatever jimbob did wrong pales in comparison to that, IMHO.
Jimbob needs a lesson in the way he is expected to decide upon specifications before coding; Whoever wrote that in client's code needs to take a bruised arse down to the back of the queue at the local unemployment office.