23Feb/0937
N Things You Don’t Want to Hear when Starting a New Job (where N >= 1)
Here are a collection of quotes that can drive fear into the heart of every developer. They're made worse when heard at the start of a new gig, as any hope of a brave new world is smashed before you even get a login!
26Nov/0821
Websites are Hard to Build
"It's just a small site, how hard can it be?"
"I thought you could do it for me as a favour. It's not a complicated site."
"This would take me an afternoon, but I don't have time, can you do it for me?"
Have you ever heard these comments before? Have you heard ones that are similar? I've been hearing them a lot in the last few weeks and it's starting to get to me.
I have just had a chat with a mate who is also suffering this pain, and that conversation is what inspired me to write this, the first random rant in a while.