!rant

I really like the Parity Purchase supported websites.

How do you feel about it?

!rant

What do you call your boss?
Do you call by their first name basis, last name, or 'sir/madam' or anything else?

Here in India I've seen people calling 'sir/madam' and first name basis.

My company got a project from a client to maintain it. I checked the database and found there's a column named "Sorry_Created_Extra".

I just saw my near future clearly at that moment.

I really hate it when your boss asks to lie to clients.

What are you doing here?

Which extension do you recommend for VS Code, which has most of the features of SFTP package by Will Bond for Sublime Text?

!rant

Today I almost lost my not a year old motorcycle.

I parked my motorcycle in a parking lot, kept the key on the seat and left. After an hour I realised that I hadn't brought my key after locking my motorcycle. I ran to the parking lot like a mad bull. Fortunately my motorcycle was not stolen and the key was still there on the seat. 😌

One intern showed me an issue he was facing. "Delete" button was not working in a HTML page he had developed, but edit button is working properly. I checked the code both buttons had same id "edit72-btn". I said to him you need to use unique id in a page.

The thing he said next made a speechless. I was just looking at his face.

He said "edit72-btn and del72-btn are almost same, couple of characters are different. Are they going to work?"

My friend just realised that he shot an entire video of a person infront of green screen, while that person was wearing a pant with green stripe.

Just search "I am rich" or "I am poor" in Google Play Store and let me know which one you bought.

I was reviewing one dev's work. It was in PHP. He used MD5 for password hashing. I told him to use to password_hash function as MD5 is not secure...

He said no we can't get a password from MD5 hashed string. It's one way hashing...

So I asked him to take couple of passwords from the users table and try to decode those in any online MD5 decoder and call me after that if he still thinks MD5 is secure.

I have not got any call from him since.

What are you going to say when you'll know a more than 1yr experienced web developer working in PHP and MySQL does not know about indexing column in MySQL and submitting registration form (includes password) in GET?

You know what's worse than hell?

Your non-technical boss thinking he knows coding.

In the middle of night you are going to fix the problem he created, because he messed it in live server.

Workflow?
No source control. No documentation. No testing. Do everything on live server.

!rant
I saw many devs here complaining about WordPress, which I used to do. But recently WordPress saved me in work.
Client needed a fully functional e-commerce site with some custom logic in 3 days, which is required only for 2days for a contest. So we developed the site in WordPress in 2days, 1day testing and data upload.

So I'm not sure if there is any solution other than WordPress or platform like that to help in these kind of situations.

Procrastination

I got my last job (current job) exactly 3 years 3 days back. That was 2nd interview of my life with 2 days of interview process having 1 round. Then I was hired as 1st developer of the startup.

Funny thing is that 1 month before I got this job, one person approched me to develop an internal system for his company, but cancelled the deal once he knew I hadn't worked anywhere.