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9y

When I arrived at my new job last year they were working on developing a large site using a live server with all the devs ftp-ing every change in the build process to test it. 😵

It was not uncommon to hear 'is anybody in the style sheet?' being shouted across the office!

Needless to say, I had to fix many bugs multiple times when my fixes were overwritten!

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  • 4
    9y
    live ftp is so much faster than version control though! no worrying about silly merging conflicts and pulling stuff to the server.
  • 2
    9y
    You can get away with all sorts too. They'd had 4 devs work on it who had left before it was finished, so plenty of others to blame for mischief!
  • 4
    9y
    haha so true, another good reason for live ftp. you can never pin point the bugs to one specific dev so we're all off the hook. do you guys ever play Russian roulette and save the same file at the same time to see who has to redo all their changes?!
  • 0
    9y
    Can't say I've tried that, but it sounds fun. Clients don't understand version control, so it's easy to justify the extra dev time too - most have managed to save over a file.
  • 3
    9y
    I laughed pretty hard on this one... But then... Wait... Started crying, wagging back and forth with thumb stuck in mouth...
  • 1
    9y
    Look at the bright side. You can solve the same problem with different solutions. 😜
  • 2
    9y
    Yup. Especially when the front end dev doesn't really know JS (yup, you read that right). Most of the other solutions I saw included variables called 'myNewVariable' and commented out lines such as
    //alert('Hello world!');

    I write most of the front and back end code myself now...
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