A quick sticky note comic.

Well, it's complicated. There was two of them and they were both great but which one I should declare as the "best boss" depends on who was actually the boss. There was always a power struggle between the two of them. He was always there for us in good times and bad. He knew when it was appropriate to lay down the law and when to let things slide. She was often away but we knew that behind the scenes she was the one that kept everything afloat. We looked up to both of them, they both deserve credit.

If I have to choose though... it was definitely Tony.

Hey dev. Listen to religious music at too high a volume or constantly bitch and complain about how everyone else in the world is an asshole. They're both annoying but I can't take both at the same time...

The time tracking app used at my company was created with Angular JS. Most functionality is quite fast so I can understand why they wanted to go this route. Unfortunately, the clock in section takes forever to load during peak traffic times... which is the only time that functionality is used. Someone found an older section of the site written with server side tech. Now everyone just bypasses the Angular clock in and uses the old one.

You shouldn't use tech for the sake of using it, it should also perform better than what it's replacing.

I was the last one to leave the office... It wasn't even 5:01 pm.

When you have time, can you squeeze this project in?

Look, I don't have time ever. Projects are scheduled months in advance. Nothing ever finishes ahead of schedule. If you want to bump another project, just say it!

I need to memorize my work number once and for all.

Best office prank: I was pretty young and naaive. Senior dev comes to me and says that it would be hilarious to slide a note under the women's bathroom door saying, "I know what you're doing in there". He says that the woman in there will think it's hilarious too. We work with her, she's very funny and laid back, so I go along with it, expecting to get a laugh. A few minutes go by and a different older women enters my cube. She's got the note! She works on the other side of the building so I don't know her too well but I can tell from the look on her face that she's pissed. I'm frozen with fear as my career flashes before my eyes.
I apologise perfusely and try to explain but she's not having it. After a while she goes back to her office not having accepted that it wasn't meant for her and that it was just a joke gone wrong. I spend the next two days apologizing every chance I get, hoping she won't go to HR. She remains stone cold until late on the second day. She couldn't take it anymore as her mouth reluctantly begins to crack a smile. At that point she drops the serious expression on her face and busts out laughing.

It turns out that the three of them planned the whole thing and executed flawlessly. I've never felt so relieved to be the butt of a joke.

I almost fired off an update query without a where clause on the live db. I stopped at the last second. I'm now having survivors guilt. Why me? Why was I saved when so many before me didn't make it? 😁

Anybody else having issues with the barnypok spam bot bypassing the honeypot technique?

Just attempted to move my mouse cursor over to the cubical wall in order to copy a server name off the list I have pinned up... It's going to be a long day.

Client sent over their list of locations. The last entry was "poop"...

Enough screwing around with the design. Time to actually start working on the apps functionality.

4 o'clock on a Friday and daughters birthday party tonight...

Not this time deployment... you're gonna have to wait until Monday.

Client wants change to web page copy. Client sends wall of text with one word changed.

Some days are like being a musician on tour. I wake up to a new code base every 2 hours. After a while I'm like, "What client am I even working on?"

Notepad++: An update package is available, do you want to download it?

Me: Maybe next time

Notepad++: Sure, that's what they all say

Wrote a method a while ago to simplify a task.
Today I found some old code from a previous dev which was almost identical.

I'm either on the right path or were both on the wrong path. 😂

Worst part of being a dev is that feeling that you're walking up the down escalator. Can't get ahead and if you stop, you're back where you started.

Oh and some punk kids keep passing you on the way! Lol

Best part of being a dev is the fact that we get to use our brains everyday. No day is ever monotonous.

Breakfast of champions.

5pm and finally getting to this support ticket, only to find someone else took the ticket. Ah yeah! Going out on a high note!

!rant

What's the best technique for securely storing all the various credentials used throughout a business?

!rant T-shirt idea:

"You think you know source control?
You don't know Git!"

So many ways to import data into SQL Server and yet I can never get any of them to work right.

Build failed, 0 errors.

I don't need this shit...

The face you make when you're daughter takes your squishy ball and you're forced to make a devRant football instead.

Trying to troubleshoot this busted ass code for a client. Meanwhile, my wife is in class and my two daughters are blowing chunks.

Staring at devRant isn't fixing anything either. Lol

I'm staring at the setter portion of a legacy VB property I came across.

This is crazy... right?

Set(value As String)
_firstName = value.Substring(0, value.Length)
End Set

Just for fun, a home made comic.