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MisterArie
9y

Just last month we finished a big project for a client. The company had their lawyers make a contract to transfer ownership for the website to them.

One of the requirements was to deliver all code in a word file. And just that. In the whole contract was not a word about transfering the production environment to their servers. Or supplying a working version. The files and database. No just the word file.

As of today still wondering what they where planning to do with a word file with hunderds of pages of code.

Offcourse we deliverd a working version to their servers. But why are there people making decisions about things they understand nothing at all.

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  • 5
    9y
    So... Server code, HTML, JavaScript and CSS all in the word file? That must have been a fun job!
  • 2
    9y
    @Seethe we suggested that it might be in their best intrest to not do the world file if they wanted any hope of being able to use the product.
  • 11
    9y
    Should've tossed a database dump in there too. :P
  • 3
    9y
    @Seethe that would have been savage, don't think word files can get that big we have been measuring 80 values for ~140 devices that measure every minuten. So thats about 12768000 values a day. And that for almost a year.
  • 2
    9y
    @aronmik did they say what format the code had to be in? I bet you could high compression gzip that and then dump all of that data into a word file. Obviously you'd have to write a script to do that, but it sure would be fun!
  • 2
    9y
    @Seethe ooh, if ever I found some freetime I could be doing so much fun stuf.

    That being said I did make a vertical vegtable garden with an arduino in the kitchen that measures moisture in the soil and then waters when needed. And soms minor control over the grow lights.
  • 1
    9y
    @aronmik nice! I've done a bunch of home automation stuff with Raspberry Pi, so that's familiar! What did you use to dispense the water?
  • 1
    9y
    @Seethe I have a basin atop the rack that holds the plants filled with water and some really cheap aquarium pumps. They each correlate to different soil sensors.
  • 1
    9y
    I understand them wanting the source but in a word file? Also their lawyers missed a lot of important aspects.
  • 1
    9y
    @Jumpshot44 Yeah, I don't think those lawyers had much experience with more software related contracts. They entire thing felt like it was copy and pasted from other sources. The first draft had for example reference pointed to not existing clauses.
  • 0
    9y
    @Seethe - talk about online css right
  • 1
    9y
    why not in .bmp ?
  • 0
    9y
    typical businessman mentality 😫
  • 0
    9y
    @adamcharming what other kind of CSS is there?
  • 0
    9y
    @Seethe inline css with typos :P
  • 0
    9y
    Isn't inline CSS still online CSS? :P now if you had mentioned proton apps, I'd have to agree with you.
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