I get a late start (two weeks) on a jumping in on a project because I was assisting with production issues. The service is not running and basically nothing has been checked in. Mind you, we're not doing anything new.

"Senior" (while I'm trying to work on my part ) : Hey can you hurry up and finish your part? I'm thinking about coming up with a completely different way than what the group wants. (heard this several times)

Me : *finishs my part with coverage and gets the service up running and rating in a week because I'm avoiding code conflicts*

"Senior" : OK well nevermind what I said about coming up with a different strategy. I'll develop the last bit of the service since again everything has been laid out already on what to do.

Me : OK, I'll work on code coverage for the rest of the project and updating the code based on feedback from the other team members.

Me (a week later after hearing that he has moved on to another task) : Did you finish up that last bit?

"Senior" : Well I shifted focus working on feedback from the review. Feel free to finish that last bit I was supposed to work on because I don't know wtf I'm doing and I would rather ride your ass instead of attempting anything significant on my own.

Me: Heard.

It's Friday and I'm having one of those "how the fuck is this working?" moments. Caveat: it's my code. 😂😂😂

!Rant

Solutions that come to you not in a dream but in the morning while on the commode. 😂😂😂

Worked all day yesterday (8am to 11pm) trying to get a regression test developed in ReadyAPI to behave properly in Maven/Jenkins. All I have to say is that I have some words for Smartbear.

Have you ever been so frustrated with a problem that you almost posted a question to Stackoverflow.com just to find your answer minutes later?

Which reminds me, I need to comment on that thread where I found my answer. It wasn't entirely correct...

Worse dev experience: Working for a company that had a monopoly in the market. They have Dinosaurs that didn't want to upgrade the user experience at all because of the company's hold on the market and their lack of forward thinking. It's a privately held company that is hard to get terminated. It was frustrating because they could do more but didn't so I'm looking to compete once my non-compete is up.

Best dev experience : Quitting the aforementioned job and getting another one. 😎

I legit teared up over understanding some code I've been intimidated by for the past month.

So I had a pet goat... He was this one developer that would walk around and bother people all day. We called him a goat because of the way he would move his mouth and smack during long pauses, like a goat or cow would do with a mouth full of grass.

Tfw you see "So here is the magic behind the following." as coding comment the day after you declared a separate modification that you made as "witchcraft".

Mrw I go from a zero to a senior developer in less than two years.

Things could be soo much better if I could just refactor this code to accommodate more than one web service... #soapmessages #devwoes