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So... he came back from vacation today. Took the entire blame for the situation, had reactivated the redundant connection, but said nothing more. I got the feeling that he was very ashamed.

I had expected a funnier reaction to rant about, so, sorry about that. :)

But I guess the initial rant has enough merit on its own.

My company has web app as their ultimate sales pitch.

I was assigned to develop a mobile front-end to the website we provide our clients with. Deadline was 7 days from project start...

I wrapped together some jQuery mobile crap which looked and felt like an ios native app (as on request).

My boss/salesman thought it was fantastic and started to sell it in as our app. Problem is that he himself can't tell the difference.

Now our clients wonder how to install the "web app", we have the worst shitpile of code to maintain, and I just want to cry when I think of the mess.

Omg, run mate, run!

Oh I remember that day when I ventured into the world of xcode. Everything went fine and was a blast until it was time for code signing... it quickly turned into a fml situation :)

Yep, we used to have two ISP:s with automatic failover between them.

The primary connection has been quite stable until lightning struck two days ago.

That's when we realized that the big man had taken the, probably cost-driven, choice to cancel the redundant connection. Shootin' straight from the hip... like a boss.

He's off on vacation to sunnier and warmer places...

My boss previously had a habit of dropping by my desk, standing behind me and comment on what was on screen. Like: -"That looks cool, but maybe do it like this instead?"

A colleague of mine coined it Cowboy Management, when the boss shoots feature requests from the hip, walking down the hallway. :)

Congratulations!

You brave soul!

I was 12. Started with Basic.

The only thing worse is the horrible combination of IE as browser and Lotus Notes as email client.

We still have some clients on *ahem* IE6... :(

@Thewebdev haha, brain couldn't handle the frustration

Same here... but apparently my workplace consists of stonehearted sinners, so the holy light of this allmighty god is burnin' out quickly!

@fredrf I feel for you man. That piece of garbage software can make anyone go crazy...I mean "Replication" what the hell..

omg, don't mention that name.. It's has been another type of headache for 10+ years :)

well spent energy

Haha, before actually. But I actually learned something new from your notes once I started it up, so kudos again :)

Yep, it was a pleasure. But maybe I was just lucky avoiding regular pitfalls. :)

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Figured it out :) I had tried to reset my password on the swag store (desktop version) but got "No account found with that email". I guess it is using a separate userbase. Anyway, that made me insecure as to what email address I had actually used. Even thought I had misspelled the address initially. Heads up on potential user enumeration issue on the store page though.

Maybe a feature request? 😉

Haha me too, 4 characters to start a comment feels like a mountain to climb sometimes.

ooh, too many to choose from! Monkey Island, of course (all of 'em), Gabriel Knight, UFO, Crusader No Regret, Freelancer, I can go on forever...

*cough* I blame the testers! 😀

great idea!

A classic. Can also be combined with a -"Can't we just quickly..."

Oh the horror!

Haha, damn should have thought of that 10 years ago.. now I'm nervous!