Made a new site, added a contest to draw people in... People do the contest and never come back F#@K. They don't even hit a single other page on the site

I started learning programming by downloading phpnuke and tearing apart the source code. Before WordPress became popular there was phpnuke :) Google it you youngsters

best part about being a programmer. you hear people complain about all the main software solutions available for something and then you go and make your own with a roadmap driven by doing the opposite of what the others do and end up with happy users lol. love it

we hired a new front end dev and she made her first commit.... and then some more... a week later I see that she had somehow deleted the .gitignore file and so all the composer files among other things were now in the branch. had to go back and fix that quick lol

because of me and my startup I have convinced my buddy to become a programmer. love it!

dream with unlimited time and money.... would be to start a kickstarter project that never actually launches and just keeps collecting even more money lol

devrant needs a duplication checker when writing a rant. similar to how support software will show similar tickets as your write yours up. help stop the duplicate posts. some I see reposted at least once a week.

left a company over 3 years ago because they wanted me to dumb my code down so that the other devs could understand it. they wouldn't allow me to use classes in my code lol. anyway, 3+ years later figured I would try to log in to some of the admin panels... passwords still the same. MySQL dbs... passwords the same... cpanel... passwords the same. smh. even if I still worked there the passwords should be changed every so often. top notch security right there. funniest part is they don't even do backups or use VCS for the code. sad sad company. glad I'm no longer there. my personal projects have more security, redundancy and fail over lol

@dfox i like the new stories feature. would be cool if there were another section that only showed posts with pictures. kind of like imgur is to reddit

google news app apparently doesn't have a fallback when it can't find a title

i'm curious... to anyone on here who does hiring, why do companies always expect someone to already have experience with high volume systems. i've been a php dev for 10+ years but am having the hardest time finding a job and i have been turned down so many times because they expect me to have worked on a system with millions of users and terabytes worth of data already. it's beyond frustrating

best part of being a dev... job interviews where experience always counts more than education...

i feel being a dev has given me great sarcasm skills

needed to find something on my desk but too lazy to get up. made a route and a view in laravel to display a blank white page to illuminate my desk lol

When people say they wish a language was more strict. I'm a fan of the loose lol.

Tried Python. Script failed due to indent not at right amount. Bye

C#/.NET... Typecasting out the a$$. Goodbye lol

PHP. Anything goes. Hello, this is my kind of world. Never had an issue with types but I write my code to handle values properly.

And I know people will have opposing views. However I will say that you can still achieve the strictness in PHP by putting in your own checks. Create a few custom functions to do your validations and you are good to go :)

so my parents live close and my dad said his router died. I told him I had a spare. I loaded it dd-wrt on there and next time I went over there he asked about opening a port. I said I could do it for him. wouldn't let me touch it. he believes he is the computer genius and that I would brake it.

funny part is I work on servers for huge companies like Wells Fargo, Ally Bank and tons of others. I can configure a rack mount router but he doesn't trust me to touch a little crappy home linksys router lol.

no matter how smart you are they never want to admit their kid knows more about tech than they do.

coding for your company and you know something doesn't work right.... sweet I'm done. I'll just fix that tomorrow.

coding for yourself and it works right but you still feel nervous about your users using it so it takes you an hour to build up the courage to push the changes live lol

My favorite item imported all the way from the Netherlands. best drink ever. love using my soda stream to turn it into a soda :)

anyone else have their own side projects where they follow no structure and pretty much make spaghetti code just to get it finished asap so you can make money off the system you are building? lol. not proud of the code i wrote today but damn did I get a lot of functionality implemented.

When you open DevRant and it opens one of your random rants from weeks ago.. seriously though. does this happen to anyone else. it's happens a least once a day for me. it opens random rants I posted when i didnt even have them open last time the app was open and i didn't open the app via notifications.. Had this issue on a couple android phones so far

had a rough Friday at work until i saw this and a laugh made a difference. so I thought I would share...

spent 2 days trying to figure out why my css was working fine on one page but not another. found it was due to the doc type declaration on one of the pages was mad about me not putting height:100% on a parent div. smh

So i'm a laravel dev and i love it. However one thing that only seems to happen late at night is when working with Eloquent i always end up putting () when working with relationships.

Last night i spent about 2 hours messing with

public function members(){
return $this->hasManyThrough(
'App\Member', 'App\ConversationMember',
'conversation_id', 'id', 'id'
);
}

only to find out i was calling it via
$conversation->members() instead of $conversation->members

This morning when i opened up the IDE i immediately figured out what i was doing wrong.... sometimes burning the late night oil is counter productive i guess you could say

just added my new devRant stickers to my collection :)

when setting up SSO with LDAP on a customer's system they tell me to use a different domain than the one that everything resides on. tell them it won't work because when I did a nslookup and this other domain none of the domain controllers are listed. today SSO starts working out of nowhere and they claim they didn't change anything. did a nslookup and see the domain controllers. looks like someone fixed their mistake but didn't want to admit they made one lol.

when people post work requests on here instead of rants. this ain't no freelancing website lol

anytime someone has a request and tells you how long it should take... run far far away!

"can you do this? should only take like an hour"

people who don't use semi colons in JavaScript. I know it's not required but God does it drive me nuts.

also one line if statements that don't use brackets.

ahhhhh

I see people posting setups so I will share mine. three 27" Asus monitors. left for viewing site, mid for code, right for db :)

people who send a long message in the subject line with a blank body

deciding at what point to release the beta of your software. you will always find thing you think need to be in there before launch but it never ends and have to bite the bullet and expect some complaints. I planned on launching 3 months ago :(