When your marketing department moves so slow you now only have 1 month before Q&A for a massive website release and I’m still only 44% done....

Coming back to web development after being in the army! Ready to pick up where I left out!

Officially enlisted in the US Army! Excited to start the next halter of my life!

Boss just repositioned the security camera we use to watch the front door right behind me, with perfect view of me and my monitor.....micro manage much....

Well today my boss wants me to “tweak” our coldfusion framework to behave like a REST api....talk about an entire rewrite.

There’s a reason why no one uses coldfusion anymore.

Definitely when my boss got me super hyped up that we were gonna start using MongoDB/node.js/angular or react, I spent hours learning the languages.

Then he comes up to me a few weeks later and decides to “pivot”

I wanted to cry. Back to coldfusion

"Don't worry I used to be a programmer, I'm a cool project manager"

...Scariest words I've herd in a long time

"I'm to busy with administrative tasks, I'm gonna need you to take over my project, sorry to derail you" -boss

Anyone else have a manager who absolutely LOVES to "derail you" and then says "sorry I don't mean to derail you but can you work on..." I swear tired of working for another person

Advice seeking app

Learning that not everyone gets a say in the direction of the app. Only the team lead.....

Correcting my bosses code!

NPM keeps throwing errors at me! Throwing a fit ensues for about 20 minutes.

Realized I was in the wrong project directory....

My biggest problem is my family as gentle as I can put it (wife and 3 kids) which require a lot of attention so it's easy to say "eh that website can wait my family needs x,y,z." I'm no master but I've gotten better at this by leaving my home for 1-2hrs a day and going to my local coffee shop to work. My mind knows now by this point that when I'm there I'm there to work and that's it, has worked wonders for me.

Me: "hey we should do this new project in react!"
Boss: "no he barrier to entry is to tough for our team"

Boss talks to past employee(which he had to let go because he was a TERRIBLE developer who now works for facebook....) about new project, past employee recommends react....

Team is now going to work on a new project written with react......

Where why opinions and thoughts are considered and not just dismissed. Truly sucks not being able to have any input on what your working on

When you snap at the other Developer because you SWEAR your bug fix push corrected the issue, to then be put back in your place...realizing the other Developer was right...humble yourself

When your CSS file is so huge even github gets angry at you

Converting 1.5 million lined web app to a rest API....realizing it would be so much easier to just re-develop the web application....at least we're finally starting to move away from coldfusion and heading to node!

Chrome developer tools, without it I wouldn't be able to see all the errors generated by my awesome programmer skillz

When I was working on the bug list and our testers kept repeatedly assigning me new bugs and "do-overs" I don't think I've ever been so angry

My ASANA task list :/ I always get distracted with new bugs coming in...oh squirrel!

Accidentally using a MySQL update and not specifying the where....yeah needless to say every single dB record got updated to trash data and the DB wasn't backed up....I was a brand new developer so....

When your boss has you learn a new language but then doesn't listen to any of your input concern this language and acts like they know the language as well....which they don't

I would purchase a udemy course and grind away. I still do this today. In my option one of the best resources to learn new programming languages.

We truly love windows 10, what are your opinions on windows 10?

After your boss side tracks your udemy course to learn something else and then going back to that course after a month like "wait what the hell is this alien language"

The small company I work for has FINALLY decided to start moving towards the MEAN stack, in which I was overly thrilled! However they have started to regress because "cold fusion is so much easier to write"

I LOVED cold fusion. However because of the yearly cost associated with it no one uses it anymore so it's hard to find resources when I run into issues.

I learned by buying a book in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and never looked back