So I have inherited a crappy Symfony 1.4 application and I need to rebuild the lucene indexes. Anyone know if it's safe to do this while users are in the application?

I am so sick of people using emoji's in business related emails. I want to hunt them down and break their fingers when I see it.

Today's frustration is brought to you by Mac. The hardware may look pretty, but at times, it can drive you bat shit crazy...

Windows in the wild...

I once worked as the sole web developer for an in-house agency for a large corporation. The guy I reported to there was by far the best boss I ever had. Most weeks I wouldn't even see him.

He was smart enough to know the web was important to the business, but humble enough to say he didn't understand it. He rarely ever questioned the decisions I made.

The only downside to the job was it was part of a large corporation.

I love starting my day by finding things like this in a production environment...

The evening code spot.

Boring day job office setup.

As if working with WordPress isn't annoying enough, now we are mixing in multisite. I had such high hopes for today...

Not tech related, but funny nonetheless.

!Rant
I highly recommend everyone fire at least one client in your lifetime. It is a glorious feeling!

My Boss: Hey let's meet to discuss a new project you need to start on Monday.

Me: Great!

My Boss: It's a WordPress project

Me: I will be at the bar...

How today is going...

"We are going to make you an offer, but you really shouldn't accept it."

It's amazing how quickly management can suck the fun out of what should have been a pretty exciting and fun project.

Once worked with a PM in a company that was downsizing. Rumors were flying about who was getting cut. He heard his name was on the list and went on a rampage in the office. Cursing every member of management out and turned his office upside down before telling everyone to go fuck themselves and walking out.

Turns out his name wasn't on the cut list.

If you do all your development in the MASTER branch, do not call yourself a git "Guru".

If you are a developer and the resume you send me says "Certified Web Ninja" on it. I will invite you to an interview. But keep in mind, if you don't show up wearing all black and carrying a Katana, I will throat punch you and send you on your way.

How to get thru the tough dev days...

Bourbon.

I have to spend my day working on a WordPress site. I would rather get a root canal from a back alley dentist using rusty tools with no novocaine.