Posting here after more than a year and getting through the pandemic.

I typed more lines of code during this pandemic compared to last 2 years.

It was another VERY ordinary day. I was stuck in a coding problem for over 5 hours.

My wife is neither a programmer nor she understands code but I love her more when she puts snacks in my mouth herself because my hands are too busy on the keyboard.

Apparently the other dev has gone on vacations and I've been assigned most of his pending tasks.

I don't remember they did the same to him when I went on vacations last month.

Spent 4 hours trying to fix a problem which fixed in just 4 lines of code.

My wife feels sorry for me.

DigitalOcean. Easy to use, rebuild and destroy. DNS is a plus. However, I had problems with using the droplets at a specific location.

I recently started using AWS Lightsail as well and found it so far so good.

Just opened devRant in a desktop browser after a very (x5) long time and boy I love the new interface. So much information is available on a single screen.

Sometimes, I just hate to go through all the information and provide a quote to the client. Especially, when a project is no fun.

End of week.

Hasn't got much to do.

Just browsing through Youtube and waiting for my today's shift to end.

Spent 4 hours trying to make a query work and failed miserably.

Turns out I was using inverted commas around the value.

What the ....

Got married last Saturday.

Starting new job in couple of weeks

Life is good!

An old client came back to me stating that I didn't fix the last change he requested a month ago. I went in old emails, found out what he needed, tried the website, it was doing exactly what he wanted.

I wrote to him with confusion asking what was he wanted me to fix.

"It's not working"
"It is"
"No, it's not. Can't you see?"

I attached old email conversations and sent him to see for himself.

"I am not talking about that." I want it to work like this, like that, blah blah blah.

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Fucking asshole. Tell me you wanted new feature in the website.

It's been 2 months that I've been waking up early and sleeping before midnight. I miss coding all night 😢

So I've finally decided to move from Windows to Linux. However, there are so many distros of linux available now which made me confused in choosing the right one.

What would be the best linux distro for a backend web developer? I don't mind if there would be a learning curve. Thanks

Coding is one of the only types of work where you can spend an entire day focused and working hard and actually come away in a worse state than you were before you started.

Excuse me boss!

During increment time
Boss : There are 50 bricks on an Plane. If u drop 1 outside. How many
are left?

Employee : That's easy, 49.

Boss : What are the three steps to put an elephant into a fridge?

Employee : Open the fridge. Put the elephant in. Close the fridge

Boss : What are the four steps to put a deer into the fridge?

Employee : Open the fridge. Take the elephant out. Put the deer in. Close the fridge.

Boss : It's lion's birthday, all animals are there except one, why?

Employee : Because the deer is in the fridge.

Boss : How does an old woman cross a swamp filled with crocodiles?

Employee : She crosses it because the crocodiles are at the lion's birthday

Boss : Last question. In the end the old lady still died. Why?

Employee : Er....I guess she drowned....err...

Boss : No! She was hit by the brick fallen from the Plane that's the problem, you are not focused on your job....You may leave now!!!

Moral: If your boss has decided to screw u, no matter How much u prepare u will be screwed.

Sometimes, I wish to punch Bill Gates in the face for founding Microsoft which created Windows 10.

Fucking updates

Today marks the 2 years of my night shift. It appears it would take another 2 years to settle in the day shift.

This change of shift doesn't suit me at all. I sleep at working hours and stay awake all night.

What do I do?

Revenge is best served cold

It had been over 7 weaks since Microsoft was prompting me to restart my system to update Windows.

Today, they took over.

30 mins and still I'm looking at screen waiting to finish updates.

There is something seriously​ wrong with me. I start to enjoy my work when I reach off timing.

-- How I succeeded turning a PHP/MYSQL app into Android app within a week --

Alright. So I wanted to grab your attention to what I'm about to write. If you are here just to read about the technologies I used, jump to bottom.

This is also a kind of rant; rant against the other fellow devs who demotivated me originally when I asked a question.

I'll not go in the details of my original question. Here's the link for those who are interested:
https://www.devrant.io/rants/366496
It's been days since I achieved what I wanted to but I thought someone might learn from my experience. So here it goes.

Why FREE?
Well, it was an important client. I worked on his website and he asked for an app for the same website and told me he won't be able to pay me anything for the app. I was, somewhat, under the impression that he might be testing me. If not, then I would end up learning something new. It wasn't a bad deal for me so I didn't hesitate to took it.

Within a week, I was able to pull the job and finish it. I felt so much better (and proud of myself) when I finished the app within the week and client approved it. What did I get? I got a GOOD BANK CLIENT in my pocket now. Got a lot more worth of projects from the same client. If I were being paid for the app, I might not have pulled the job so much better.

So the moral of this story is never to give up. NOT EVERY DEVELOPER SELLS SHORT ONLY FOR "MONEY". Some enjoy learning new things. And some like me love to accept new challenges and are not afraid to try something new everyday.

In case, someone is interested in knowing the technologies I used, here they go;

PhoneGap
Framework7
Template7
Apache Cordova

I wrote an API for the interaction between the web services and the app.

Also, Ionic Framework seems promising but it had a learning curve and time was of the essence. But I'm gonna learn it anyhow.

What is the easiest way to convert a PHP/MYSQL app into android app?

My client needs it urgently and I'm not getting paid. So I don't intend to put much effort into it. It's just a gesture of goodwill.

I am getting paid just to develop a FYP project for two students.

After 3 weeks;

"When are you gonna do the charts, use cases etc?"

"WTF?"

My family asked me what do I need in these holidays. "Dozen of Raspberry Pi", I replied.

They brought me 12 blueberry.

That moment when you find solution for a problem outdated, you fix the issues but too lazy to post it on internet for others.

What non-dev team members don't understand is that when we tell them to wait while we're coding, we actually don't ignore them but try to finish the code before we forget what were we typing.

Can you guys help me with finding the best online tool for brainstorming ideas?

I've found the right tools and plugins to finish this project in few hours. However, I'm continuously distracted

Left the desk to look something to eat in the fridge. Returned 5 mins later to find my laptop restarted all by itself.

Microsoft, you evil bitch.

I could really use some coffee if only someone could make it for me.