Question:
My application (web app & mobile app) needs to interface with a users email to read mails for further processing

Is there are library (py, js) or service that I can leverage that abstracts the access to the mail servers (IMAP, POP3, Exchange, Google API, Outlook API etc.) and provides a single interface (possibly REST API) to access the mails?

It feels redundant to implement each of the above methods of email access, as I see it being a feature in many applications out there, but I am not able to find a library or service that provides it.

Any advice or suggestions with implementing each of them is also welcomed

Thanks in advance

They made a full fucking application in MICROSOFT EXCEL!!!!!!!
who the fuck makes an app in Excel? Though it's used internally, it has over 100 users and Everytime there's an update a new file is sent to all of them by mail. They use different excel files as DBs and tables as sheets. It's even got a fucking UI with check boxes and drop-downs and shit

Now guess what my task is?
Understand that entire application from the Excel files and make a webapp to cater to those requirements.

Fuck documentation, there are bugs in the Excel file and I need to fix the bugs in my app

Some good soul please tell me how must one start analyzing an Excel sheet to understand the logic behind it. Or a tool that magically converts "excel applications" to webapps

I spent a day teaching my 3 year old nephew to count from 0 and he argued with his teachers the following day that he has 9 fingers. His parents have been called to school 😂

Joined a new team at work hoping to learn something new. Was told by the team lead that they will be starting development on a new project that I was interested in.

Guess what it was all a fucking lie. I'm assigned a task to create documentation for some legacy java shitcode without any fucking comments.

Fine I get it, they say it's required going down the road of the new project as it will work alongside the old application. But the code is so fucking bad. For starters

-The db host and credentials are hard-coded in a million places
-it stores user credentials in plain text
-its creating files in the fucking filesystem to store things instead of storing it in the db
-each functions ranges from 100 to 8000 lines of code

Who even codes like this 🤯

And I can't fix these issues. All I need to do is document every function and class and package. Fine. Fuck this shit

Dad handed over this beast to me
Casio PB-100
RAM: 1KB
ROM: 10KB
CPU: 455KHz
Display: 12 characters Monochrome

It's hard to believe that someone used this to code back in those days. Suppose to have been one of the first personal handheld computers. And people here complain about having 32gb RAM with 8 cores shame on you all

From Pentium 3 to i7
Couldn't have been happier seeing all of they work perfectly even now

So I was asked to help migrate an application to AWS, asked for the codebase. Received a GitHub link in my mail (Usually is a zip file). Satisfied I open the link to see a repo with a hundred zip files time-stamped with version numbers

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

For all those who hard coded 2017 in their code don't forget to update it 😋

PS. I actually know people who have

I'm done here

I don't feel like working and this is the best excuse 😅

True story
Was free at work so applied for a stretch project.
PM: you know mobile dev?
Me: yes, built a few apps
PM: good, we have an old app we want you to take the JAR change everything but the look of it and make it a new hybrid app with the required features.
Me: *kill me please*
PM: and use WordPress as the server.
Me: ...........

Accepted the challenge. Did the entire app in ionic and build a server for it with SpringBoot. Client loves it PM is still doesn't know😂

Some noob in some part of the world responsible for migrating a DB used by an application I developed forgot to migrate permissions apparently and now I can't access the db and he's sleeping while I get a million mails from clients😑😑😑

"ACK and you shall receive"

At Google Developer Days India 2017 any DevRanters here?

SQL Server gives such descriptive errors after failing at 99% -_-

When your gf isn't a Dev but still tries to surprise you on your birthday with an HTML cake. But your OCD is killing you because of the mistakes

Src: IG - developers_team

!Rant
New to the whole front end world so pardon me for such a question.

I have a huge set of data about 5-10k records flowing in which needs to be displayed in a tabular form with sorting, filtering, selection addition and deletion.

Is it wise to sort and filter in the front end? Or make multiple calls to backend and perform the operations there?

If in front end what is the best way to perform these operations?

The application is going to be loaded on a screen and left there for users to view. So even local storage could be am option.

Using polymer for frontend so any special tool for this in polymer?

"Yesterday's code today's mystery"

-all coders

"page unresponsive" recursion!

Exception handling explained... Well they missed 'finally' 😅

not sure why they don't just make it free and have a donate option 😀

updates without a change log make me want to uninstall the app 😫

none support IE so it shouldn't be that hard😁

Juno finally reached Jupiter, it takes 49mins for a signal to be sent to or received from Earth. IE users would know how that feels like😛

I get 21 errors in a 20 line program!

we've all been there

living dangerously!

If you don't get an error you're probably doing it wrong.

and what happens when you're both a dev and a gamer 😓

#foreveralone 😓