Well done Proscenic.

My new home office.

I haven't posted on DevRant in a while so thought I would share my new home office set up.

My old set up was great. Dual screen standing desk, fast desktop and great monitors.

Since having a new baby a few months back, the home office is now a nursery. My only option is to sit at the kitchen table or stand in the kitchen (I prefer standing).

So here it is, my new office. Laptop on a kids toy box, fit snugly between chopping boards and tomatoes.

And hey, I don't actually mind at all, I love my family.

Just remember that when life gives you tomatoes 🍅 ...

Guess I've been pretty lucky, although I can think of one time a client screwed me.

Ran a job with a Cisco tech who forgot to get a sign off. He did have emails from client saying he was happy with job but things turned sour after a few weeks.

Long story short, we ended up settling out of court, I lost £8k on the job and had to sign a gag order.

Fuckers. Even worse I can't name a shame them. Actually, fuck it. Do not ever work with these arseholes: https://www.smartadvisers.com/

They tout their services as impartial, however recommend companies they are personally invested in.Guess I've been pretty lucky, although I can think of one time a client screwed me.

Ran a job with a Cisco tech who forgot to get a sign off. He did have emails from client saying he was happy with job but things turned sour after a few weeks.

Long story short, we ended up settling out of court, I lost £8k on the job and had to sign a gag order.

Fuckers. Even worse I can't name and shame them. Actually, fuck it. Do not ever work with these arseholes: https://www.smartadvisers.com/

They tout their services as impartial, however recommend companies they are personally invested in.

Client keeps contacting me telling me customers are having issues purchasing tickets (events site). Stripe is picking up potential fraudulent activity (high risk).

We know the people who are trying to buy, and they're genuine. Anyone else having issues like this?

It's not happening a great deal, I would say maybe 1 in 20 times.

Haven't been on devRant much lately because of all the urgent problems my clients are throwing at me...

Love some of the dev updates on the play store...

For a Christmas flight.
Not the prettiest currency :)

If there was another airline available for my flight I would use them.

Tayto Park, Northern Ireland. Have some pride.

Stalker alert! ;)

Need a bit of advice please!
I'm hiring a dev to complete a personal project. It's basically a modified CRM that needs to sync with desktop, tablets and mobiles. They suggested using React. Does that seem appropriate? Thanks in advance :)

My laptop just took a full cup of coffee and didn't blink an eye.

Thank god for spill resistant stuff that works.

Unfortunately I now how to make a new coffee, so it's not all good news.

Vive la France!
France takes legal action against Apple and Google for their app stores

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/...

Went into a client meeting to present pricing, timescales etc. for custom web app. After a short period of chit chat they tell me they've gone way over budget. They explain to me that they'll need to close their business if they don't get this thing built (the business consists of him and the other guy at the meeting). They currently have a website that is an e-commerce type deal, apart from the checkout process doesn't work! They basically want me to do it for free.

I may consider if I was going to benefit from new clients etc. but I'm not.

However, the problem is that one of my companies has been (IT) supporting this guy's other company for around 5 years. It's a bit of a shitty situation as that contract accounts for about 15% of our income.

That meeting was last Monday and I told them I would think about it. I have another meeting this Friday and am thinking I'm going to have to break the news gently ffs.

Does anyone else love their job? I never thought I would say this but I love Mondays and the work I do in general. I just wish I had more hours in the day.

It's hard not to judge people when posting a job on a freelance site and getting replies from "Self assessed fluent English" users like "Dear Sir, reply to posting job for experience I can make things happen for you very well". FS

Not sure why the "what's a computer" crapple ad (UK) annoys me so much.

- Learn to dev
- Build something useful

Happy Christmas fuckers.

I don't normally swear, but I'm with family in Ireland and I'm not the designated driver for once, so fuck it.

Have a good one!

Fail on pay terminal at Place Massena, Nice yesterday. Plus, still using W XP!

"Computers"

Just me, or am I the only one who loves using (Android) swipe keyboard to spell out "prototype"?

Haven't even finished the wire frame prototypes and my client is asking if I can get the site complete mid-December because they want to advertise via radio.

Maybe if you stopped changing your mind about the layout and features then I could get this done a little faster. Glad I'm charging per hour!

On the plus side, at least they asked this time - last time they had purchased a load of radio time and then gave me a deadline.

Looking for advice.

A client has asked me to set up a PoE CCTV system capable of being monitored off-site. I've looked at various camera systems but all of the apps (I'm checking Play store) have bad reviews.

Rather than using an NVR I'm wondering if it's possible to use Linux or Windows on a PC connected to a PoE switch (and the internet.

Anyone done anything like this and can recommend software?

One years free HTML5 support comes with their CCTV cameras apparently. Hate it when website designers don't check work.

That makes sense.

1.5 hours of my afternoon was spent on the phone talking my grandad through forwarding an email today.

Still love him him to death though.

We got it! Only took just over a week. Thanks!

Best pic I could get before the little monster started eating it.

Today I presented a client with their new website.

Feedback from the owner was "I fucking love it".
Got a cash bonus and a bottle of champagne before leaving.

Today was a good day!

Flipping client is checking my website work for them in an old version of internet explorer before I've even tested and having a go at me!

** Stick to your own job arseholes **

Monaco's Oceanographic museum this afternoon...