We have loads of cool projects coming in, 9 months later....nothing

/sigh

Carrot dangling much?

IIS and Windows Server

It crashes every hour!

Thank god I develop on open source platforms!

Don't try to learn *everything* before you start, you'll learn as you go.

Theory is all good until something stops working or spits out an unexpected value, so learn to debug properly!

Picked up a legacy site to re-build, turns out just adding:

'?admin=1'

to the query string gave you full admin rights to the entire site without having to authenticate. The site was live for 2 years.

Having to explain to non technical project managers that: Just because you don't see anything that's changed on the front end doesn't mean that I haven't just spent 6 weeks so trying to future proof and anticipate every little thing that might change on the backend!

Oh the project is almost finished?

Here's another feature the client requires before it can be released.

Me: Okay this will take another 2 weeks to implement. Is the client happy with that time frame?

PM: You have 3 days and there's no test time, so test as you go.

Me: .....*quits*

True story, was the last straw.

When you finally get to sign a project off as finished, after the client has changed the goal posts 50+ times.

So it's 4am and I can't sleep! Code snippets bouncing around my head!! 😫

Google and stack overflow! Oh god I don't think I would have got anywhere without them!

That feeling when you are asked to export data with columns that have never existed in the database...😞