Holy crap... I haven't been here in 7 years.

I know it doesn't really exist in one solution, but I need management software to keep track of customers (crm), projects, products, licensing and contracts, and time keeping. Right now we are using MSCRM (ugh), and old homebrew project/time tracker written in Perl spaghetti (double ugh), email (sigh) and handwritten notes (kill me). Now I suddenly find myself with a budget (somewhat) and the authority to actually fix things. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Dear people who rant about it her people's rants and claim a part of you dies. Stfu and get over it.

Now look at what you've done. You've got me ranting about you ranting about other people's rants. So meta

Same twat manager from my last rant... He'd call my mobile after hours because we were friends once, and progressively get drunk throughout the call and try to come up with ways to usurp the director, who is actually a decent guy. He'd try to talk me into schemes and convince me to leave with him or get him ousted. Silly fucker.

SO many stories... One thing he would do is a few months before review time he would start trying to prepare me by saying things are tight and who knows if we will get raises this year. Then during the review he'd offer nothing or next to nothing because money was tight. I'd accept whatever and never ask for more. Then he'd go to the director and say I tried getting a 20% raise and say I was angry, to make me look bad and make it look like he saved the company money.

"we don't care about the statement of work or that you've fulfilled it. We want <insert massive list if unrelated and unrealistic requirements here>."

Yeah, we'll eat a bullet you ham-fisted, knob gobbling buffons.

As someone who often interviews devs, I can say you should be honest about your abilities. Just because you tweaked someone's Python code doesn't mean you are a Python expert. Stick to the facts on your resume/cv. Also, have a good code portfolio. That shows the interviewer much more than a degree does.

They arrived!

Coding came years ago as a career change (evolved from a hobby), and though I was in engineering before, this career has brought my critical thinking to a whole new level.

Thanks @No-one!

Anyone here use one of those powered sit/stand desks? If so, how do you like them?

Seems as if it is now in fashion to rant about the tabs vs spaces rants. Trends are interesting.

Coffee. Lots of coffee.

I'm officially a supporter. Feels good!

Many years ago, I wrote an app for a company to provision users in AD and Exchange. It disabled 10k users and no one could work. Good times.

On an international flight and the seat back in front of me just crashed and rebooted.

The sales team.

Nothing like being handed a stack of paper forms made in Word with the note "make this into one of those apps please". Sigh.

Heh...