So my landlord just came up and asked why I'm using so much bandwidth (they've just had a new line installed so they're monitoring it like hell for some reason) so we had a chat, I told him I'm a Web Developer so I'm uploading and downloading a load, and bare in mind this is student housing, he offered to install a wired connection in my flat only so I'll have a decent and stable connection when all the other students come back in September.

This is the first time in my life I feel like I'm not paying enough rent!

Nothing makes me sicker than a programmer who chooses the light theme rather than dark

Her "it's just a Web portal how long can it take"

Me "it's a completely custom content management system. It will take time."

Her "well how long then?"

Me "a good six/seven weeks. With a lot of overtime."

Her "oh don't be so dramatic, just use WordPress."

Adding in a sleep(3) so my program looks like it's doing something, and not just throwing an error *straight* away, at least it will look like it tried...

Writing "from" instead of "form", spending one hour to find the bug...

Everytime I see the tag 'geek' on here I die a bit inside. We're all geeks, you ain't special boy!

So you're telling me, that "margin-bottom: 10%" was more unreasonable than this?

I swear to God maintaining code is just absurd...

DON'T LIST A JOB UNDER "PHP DEVELOPER REQUIRED" IF THE SPECIFICATIONS MENTION NOTHING ABOUT PHP BUT ASK FOR WORDPRESS AND WOO COMMERCE EXPERIENCE YOU UTTER BLOODY GRAVY BOAT

After disappearing since March, it makes me happy to see you all still hate your bosses and colleagues just as much as before.

So I finally tried Laravel... And fuck this shit, I'm going back to PHP...

Finally bought a smart watch! I can now be even less productive! (petition to make devRant smartwatch compatible) 😂

How many of you work with C#?

Since I moved from pure dev to Code Forensics, and studying with Forensic Computing students (who do one module on security), the amount of Kali Linux wallpapers on a Windows machine is overwhelming.

It's like the entire class watched three episodes of Mr Robot and now thinks they can change the world with a goddamn semester of teaching!

The moment of fucking blindness when alt-tabbing between a dark text editor and a white website.

I think if I do it any faster I'll get epilepsy

I chose my Linux distro based off how friendly the UI looked.

This is how to commit dev suicide.

I got my first freelance Web Developer job!!! I was beginning to think it would never happen!

Today, a friend decided to spam my phone with "haha" messages. To do this (bad) joke, he used an app he developped to send me automatically 10 times the same message... but his app has a bug, I already received 50 "haha" and it's not finished... my phone is dying and I hate my friend!

What's worse than a written test? A written test for web programming! Seriously, how do they expect us to write CSS for a full fledged page when even they know that it's just wololo magix

I don't know or care what the Mustache Framework does, as a bearded dev I WILL use it.

Today, the coffee machine gave me only a lump of sugar. Without coffee, without water and without glass. It's going to be a long long day...

My refresh button on my mouse is coming loose and is about to fall off, how dare this £11.99 mouse not last for upwards of three years, it's an outrage!

Learning cookies and sessions for user logins is killing me

It's 03:43 bst here and the dicks across the hall are still playing ridiculously loud music, and despite me asking them to shut up since I'm in work at 7 they refused. A quick nmap and I have the mac of the desktop playing the music....

Turns out cpp isn't the terrifying monster it used to be! I must be doing something wrong, it's actually working.

And now the bloody client that can't pay me is asking me to remove the search feature I spent days implementing as she'd asked me to not a week ago. She doesn't seem to realise I develop for money, I don't develop for good will and positive vibes.

The three open source apps I prefer over "closed" ones. And that not because they're Open Source but because they are free and awesome.

GIMP2 & Blender & Audacity.

Fuck all the alternatives.
Photoshop & C4D (CC ~800€/y),
Maya & 3dsMax (each ~2000€/y),
Magix with their 100 different shitass software,
and so on..

A blend of Laracasts and Laravels surprisingly good documentation has led to this beautiful moment.

I think devRant should add an Ask A Dev section, since I always feel intimidated using stack and I can't be the only one...

Why in the fucking world did I decide to manually use @media screen in CSS instead of Bootstrap, I'm down to 212px wide screen now just because I can't stand that SOMEBODY might have a bloody screen that size.

Best git UI for Linux? Or should I grow more chest hair and use the command line?

Reasons why I hate the hospital I work for...

1. NO fucking budget, for fuck sakes our telecom system is still running Merlin Magix. (I’ve been working on getting the trunk and everything to at least push FreePBX out... Configuration configuration.) but, that requires a decent server to host said system... But guess what? We’ve still got a few servers online that are running server 2012 r2. NO FUCKING BUDGET.

2. Training. They don’t have the budget to send me to training, but the doctors here are rolling in Mercedes... Must be fucking nice.

3. I have 5 f-I-v-e job descriptions. I’m a bio medical technician, network admin, system admin, programmer, and help desk... I fucked up allowing them to know I program.

4. On call 365 days a year. That’s nice and all, but when I’ve got shit to do and the nearest Walmart is an hour away I don’t want a call from Louis “oh the printer has a jam” FUCK OFF LOUIS! Get the paper out, we’ve been over this, I believe in you!

5. Some of the FUCKING (l)users.... You wouldn’t imagine some of the calls I receive, some of my favorite being late late “Hey *anonyops* I know it’s late but we’re needing a chair moved from one room to the other.” FUCK YOU YOU CHEEKY FUCKING CUNT.

The only reason I’m still here is my direct supervisor and a hand full of people that I’ve grown to love. Also, because any computer related job here is either outsourced or filled by a YouTubing god. - reason 1 why I started my own business. Supply and demand.

Rural Kansas Hospitals = shit, inb4 thanks —insert president to blame—

Twenty five goddamn minutes finding an incorrect quote mark in a bloody massive query of mySQL, I need a beer.

I now know why I'm a developer and not a designer, it's so fucking hard like it's goddamn bootstrap that shit is basically built for me but it still looks like an egg took a shit on a toaster

Does anybody else's devRant flash open the closed then open again when they press the app icon on Android?

I just lose motivation in personal projects after a few days, anybody else the same?

Emailing about a stray error message with a service. He asked me to send a screenshot of the error. So I do.

In the tabs bar, it's clearly written "how to print screen on linux" JESUS FUCKING CHRIST kill me

devRant is great because it keeps me in the mood to programme, create and envision new projects. Cheers guys.

Starting to learn haskell, I think I'm gonna hang myself

Ah, installing a program... I never thought it would be easier on Windows. But Lord, the amount of broken repositories my Linux seems to have after just one week is heart breaking. I only bloody wanted to install apache...

Hmm...recently I've seen an increase in the idea of raising security awareness at a user level...but really now , it gets me thinking , why not raise security awareness at a coding level ? Just having one guy do encryption and encoding most certainly isn't enough for an app to be considered secure . In this day an age where most apps are web based and even open source some of them , I think that first of all it should be our duty to protect the customer/consumer rather than make him protect himself . Most of everyone knows how to get user input from the UI but how many out here actually think that the normal dummy user might actually type unintentional malicious code which would break the app or give him access to something he shouldn't be allowed into ? I've seen very few developers/software architects/engineers actually take the blame for insecure code . I've seen people build apps starting on an unacceptable idea security wise and then in the end thinking of patching in filters , encryptions , encodings , tokens and days before release realise that their app is half broken because they didn't start the whole project in a more secure way for the user .

Just my two cents...we as devs should be more aware of coding in a way that makes apps more secure from and for the user rather than saying that we had some epic mythical hackers pull all the user tables that also contained unhashed unencrypted passwords by using magix . It certainly isn't magic , it's just our bad coding that lets outside code interact with our own code .

This is not something I knew I needed this morning.

Oh Lord the temptation to drop out of uni and take this front end developer job is just beyond

I COULDNT GET THE WIFI TO WORK, THAT WAS ALL, AND NOW THIS SHIT fuck it all I'm going to bed then waking up and switching to an Outdoor Leadership degree.

Well, being a British freelancer just became a thing of the past!

When the AJAX request is just right 👌

I feel like I'm the only person in the world who likes Visual Code from Microsoft as my default editor, I'm considering scrapping Atom for it.

I broke 1000 personal vote number things last night!

Well guys I was wrong the other day, Laravel is the most beautiful PHP Framework I've used to date.

So, ranters and rantees, what's your Raspberry Pi doing right now?

Anybody tried developing a chrome extension? I'm bloody lost, with LITERALLY trying to get a goddamn Hello World.
This is worse than when I tried editing in Vim.

Or worse yet, Java.

I miss the ease of installing shit on Windows, none of this missing dependencies nonsense!

Time to dive into learning NodeJS, wish me luck!

So note to self, when creating random IDs, maybe generating 1,000 digit long IDs constantly is the source of that massive ram spike and subsequent crash...

Everything is just so calm at this time on devRant and everybody is just so pleasant :)

So I started using Git! So far, I've committed my .gitignore file, whatever that is... And I can't get anything else to commit....

I'm gonna commit....

I published my first ever thing! Sure it's only a chrome new tab page but I did it! Check out compTab

But.... But... It works on the tutorial?

Ahhh I've hit 1800 points, if anybody likes any of my posts or comments, I'm coming for you, and I WILL change all your inverted commas for backticks.

Just had a customer into my shop. A regular chap but we've never really spoken before. Turns out he's a system architect for British Aerospace Engineering, a huge company up here in the north of England. So we were chatting about what I study and what he does and I said, if I come out with a first or solid/high 2:1 in my software engineering degree, would that qualify me for an entry level at your place, and he said no. Hrs part of the interviewing panel, and he wouldn't even consider people my age (23 at time of qualification) without at least having another job in the field, and said most places would be the same. So let's say I decided to not go in for anything Web development and focused on C++, is there any sort of way you guys know of gaining experience in the field without first having another job? As mentioned I do freelance Web development, but do you think having a large Github portfolio and such would help me stand a chance? I know I'll need to take a lower tier job straight out of uni in the field, but as something to help speed the process along...

Shoutout to all my fellow ranters with boring ass non dev related jobs! Working in a shop to get myself through uni sucks

Why is stack overflow so savage?!

Moving flats in about an hour, wrapped my desktop in multiple blankets and bubble wrap, and that times ten for my monitors, I'm fearing for my life here guys

Seeing the phrases and language and different APIs and platforms and various versions of everything everybody talks about makes me feel even less prepared to enter the industry properly when I leave University.

I'm going being a WordPress specialist.

WOO an entire ecommerce freelance job. That should help with the CV padding!

Is there any sense in using git for a personal project of which I'm the sole dev? Just as a way to learn version control and such, or is it nothing like what it would be as a larger team?

My exploration into the dev world started back when Anonymous were actually something a bit more than just DDoS dicks. It started with joining in with the DDoSing, but that got me interested in how it works, how servers work, then how websites work, and it's all written from there!

Client can't pay me and has asked to pay me in four installments spread across on month. Surely to all hell, if you don't have the money, don't hire a goddamn developer!

This job was decided before I got advice from you guys about getting a contract as well!

So here's mine!

It's a github for the more artistic; a place for designers, photographers, and stylists to post their work. You can choose to make your work interactive, so others can comment, or you can simply present your work. A professional option is given to present your work in a professional, clean manner with a short URl to attach to a CV or such.
Users choose whether to release their work under Creative Commons, or which attributes they wish, so students can use them in their research.
It also serves as a community and a place to collaborate.

Windows 10 updated last night while I slept, fucked royally up my netgear wifi, any advice!? Latest drivers and everything installed :(

Guys, how often do you feel inferior to your colleagues? I'm just thinking since I've just finished first year of uni, and although I got a solid top grade, I can't help but feel that every other person in the year is a much better programmer and it kinda makes me feel like a fraud. Anybody else in university/school feel like that?

We need a thread dedicated to just debating tabs vs spaces and light vs dark themes, every third post is about one of them!

Oh no, not my MySpace and Tumblr...

PCnist

For God's sake Oreo why remove the dark theme, why!

It's so goddamn hard to get work on freelancer, upwork, people per hour sites when you're just starting, how are you meant to get your foot in the door when nobody fives you chance!

So I may have been preemptive with my earlier rant, I didn't realise Ubuntu ships with PHP7... Oops

If you were to write a tl:dr about your life, what would it be?

Mine would be tl:dr, spent 14 years finding a backtick in a PHP file.

When will a client finally understand I can't just 'implement a new secure chat feature but only for these people' before lunch

Recently changed up my keyboard and bought a US style instead of my usual UK style, but changed it in Windows so I still have all my keys where I expect them.
But how the hell do you guys live with the tiny ass enter button? My pinkie is bigger than it!

What is windows actually looking for when it's "looking for a solution", it's like a kid trying their hardest to spell a word. There's a chance it'll work, but realistically there is no hope.

Thanks to @Gormack, everybody is now trying to code inject my website! I have you beat! (Please nobody skilled try it I'll weep)

I was wrong again, I broke the Laravel install. Fucking Homestead...

Anybody working on any good open source projects at the minute? I'm looking on expanding my portfolio and getting more hands-on in community based projects.

I got 15 reserved user accounts after posting that #mystartup post, this is why I love you guys.

Some zygote just came into my shop, and had "PC Master Race" tattooed on his arm... I'm all for pc over console but Lord is that dedication

Purging my database before going into production.

Ah, I remember the user asdfdfdf with the password asdfASDF123 so well. Good guy.

I've never been so happy to see a blank page with the words "Laravel 5" written on it before.

The graphics on this skybox outside tonight are amazing...

After a 3 month hiatus to focus on uni work, I'm back! I've missed you pernicious programmers!

I'm so sick of stupid little bugs. Not proper bugs like, I don't know, a memory leak or something significantly wrong, it's always a bloody semi colon or backtick...

Just spent 2 days developing a regular HTML, CSS yadada website for a client, and now she's telling me in needs to be on WordPress. Does anybody know a free way to add WordPress Content Management? (she won't pay)

Think I'm gonna branch out from dev for a minute and try my hand mucking about with my arduino kit! Any cool ideas guys? Robot Arm seems to be my prevailing will so far

TABS AND SPACES ARE THE SAME IN ALL IDEs MY ARSE

What the hell kind of ancient Greek wifi have I stumbled upon

Out of everything in this assignment, I just know I'll lose more marks for shitty variable naming than any missing features.
Commenting? Perfectly acceptable. Use of functions and classes? Perfectly acceptable.
Variable names? perfectAcceptableMaybeFileOneButAsAString

I don't get how I'm so shitty at it! I currently have shit like file input, file input as string, file input as vector, I didn't know that would be the hardest part!

I really feel lost in the world of freelancing, I mean I literally have three jobs on the go so barely any pressure and yet I'm cocking up my time estimations and mixing up code for each site, and giving incorrect predictions for completion, so basically I keep ending up working for free. Freelancers of the depths of devRant, please help! How do you manage to maintain a work life balance? Is accurate predictions and time management just something that comes with experience?

Also huge props to you for being able to keep your mentality!

Stickers and setup all in one! Thanks guys! @localhost @dfox

Why are all you Mac users hating on Chrome 52? I think it looks quite good tbh

I seriously can't decide whether I'd rather be a front or back-end dev...

Everybody's off playing No Man's Sky and I'm here on Mint like whadup, I have a better terminal... But I don't even have that anymore!

Any other firebase users think the new update is the least user friendly thing ever? TO THE LEGACY VERSION

Install Linux they said, it's better than a blue screen windows they said, THERE IS NO LINUX DRIVER OR NDISWRAP SUPPORT FOR MY WIFI ADAPTER I'M BASICALLY IN THE SAME BLOODY SPOT BUT WITH A PRETTIER TERMINAL! The reason for getting a blue screen in the first place was a bloody fucked up wifi driver!!!! I both love and hate you guys

How the hell does anybody follow the amount of brackets, quotes, single quotes and ` these things in MYSQL, I'm getting a hernia thinking about it.

I know it seems very narrow minded, but I've just never given thought to how many developers there are in each country, I only ever think of the West, maybe it's since most code is basically English...

I finally got a nice Ubuntu setup working and running. No wrappers or drivers for my existing wifi dongle but a new one on the way. And Cities Skylines has Linux support so I'm happy. I love it Cheers guys xo

Hmmmmm, the Web designer, that's designer not developer, for an ecommerce job I'm working on, just suggested we use WordPress or a html template, rather than create her own. (obvs I denied WordPress as a tool) She's not new to the game either, is she being lazy and cutting corners, or just utilising what's already available with templates?

Thought I'd take a look into how Cloud computing works and what it's all about.

I regret everything.

composer require this,
composer require that,
anddddddd it's time for bed.

4 hours applying to freelance jobs once again, and once again not a single interest. Maybe I'm doing something wrong

Do you ever get those moments if you wonder if you're in the right field? I'm not talking imposter syndrome or anything, just plain, you can't do it.

I've been staring at this cpp function for over an hour now, and I still can't decide where is the right place to return it. This is like every single day while studying cpp, and it's seriously beginning to dishearten me. I know it's just one of those things that'll come with time, but it's been nearly two years now and I still can't get it...

Any Web Dev or Design managers out there who interview candidates, should a front end developer have a Github for his portfolio or hosted on his own site? I'm torn.

Anybody else considered the mass amounts of stress the devRant devs went through, knowing for a lot of their users, it's our jobs to create these types of applications and so they're gonna be judged?

But on the bright side, it turned out amazingly.

Am I wasting my time doing a Software Engineering degree when my main interest is Web development? (we study nothing related to html, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, Ruby etc) it's mainly C++ and C#

First time using Jade and Sass today, needless to say I've never been so efficient!

That second or so when installing a package and GDebi is checking whether the dependencies are satisfiable

Google being Google I can't find a bloody answer, how do I decide to what PHP framework to use for a project? It's an ecommerce platform, not much need for scaling, but I can't bloody figure out what framework to use, either way it will mean learning it from scratch

Man I love composer, I really do, but sometimes, I wish it would just bloody download and load in the extensions for PHP for me... I know, I'm the laziest dev around, but typing php-curl is a lot of work 😡

I can't find a decent MAC OS X ISO anywhere!

Currently running Windows 10. I feel like dual booting, should I go for Windows or Mac?

Calling C++ programmers, or probably any other language, is it bad practice for me to name a string "open_first_file" or should I camelCase it instead?

Any c++ Gods able to offer a bit of help? I can't ask on stack for risk of a lecturer finding out but I really need help...

Is a Laravel or Slim3 developer a thing? Or is it just backend PHP?

Do people use cpp forms in Visual Studio? Or mainly just use forms for C#?

I really like that SO have that documentation section. It's teaching me things about writing documentation that Lord knows University will never teach me. It's great to see how things are done in the industry compared to the ancient practices we're taught.

I'm a fucking student, so no I don't recieve copies of the utility bills to my bloody halls, nor do I get paper versions of my damn bank statements, since y'know, it's 2016.
It's a goddamn £250 invoice I can't get now, despite getting at least 10 other payments for the same amount previously.

Fuck you in your Royal arse, peopleperhour

Hey Swift keyboard users, does anybody else's just close randomly? Mainly on devRant though, but most of the time when writing the keyboard will minimise itself or create a random string of words. (it did it twice while writing this)

Does anybody really use the SDLC development method? It seems so.... in practical

Is it bad practice to write a line of code longer than the screen, meaning you need to scroll on the X? I've had one lecturer who hates it and one who doesn't give a shit and I'm not sure of the standard

Oh the joys of Crypto padding in c++

Oh Illuminate Database thou art a heartless bitch

If anybody knows of any independent software for predictive coding (as in not part of a platform) please let me know, I'm struggling to find any good ones that are standalone!