Developer Secrets Revealed
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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Richard Harris |
We borrowed a collection of gifs from a blog that depicted some hilarious truths about development we just had to share. See if you can spot yourself, I'm in at least every one. If these aren't funny to you, then you haven't been programming long enough..
When I show the boss that I have finally fixed this bug
When the project manager enters the office
When I'm deploying code to production
When I try to fix a bug at 3 in the morning
When my regex returned exactly what I expected
When a friend of mine asks me to fix his website built with Joomla
When I'm told that the module on which I have worked all the week will never be used
When the code that I have not tested on dev works perfectly in production
When the sales people announce they have sold our product to the customer
When I apply a new CSS for the first time
When sysadmin finally gives us the root access
When I launch my script for the first time after several hours of development
When I go off for the weekend while everyone else is still trying to fix bugs
When the app goes into beta and the first bug reports arrive
When the boss is looking for someone to urgently fix a difficult bug
When a thing that worked on Friday no longer works on Monday
When I return to development of my code that wasn't commented
When a bug goes unnoticed during a presentation
When a newbie suggests to add a new feature to project
When the boss announces a bonus if the project is completed before the deadline
When I realize that I have been blocked for two hours because of a forgotten semicolon
When asked to lend a hand on a Friday afternoon
When the project manager suddenly looks on my screen
When the client tries to click on the mockups
When customer wants to change specification 2 days before pushing to production
When my script finally worked
When I am asked to continue work of a newbie colleague
When I'm told that my code is broken in production
When I find a solution without searching Google
When the intern tells me that "the tests are for those who can not program"
When I manage to replace 200 lines of the algorithm by only 10 lines
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