A young guy I work with burst into tears today, I had no idea what happened so I tried to comfort him and ask what was up.

It appears his main client had gone nuts with him because they wanted him to make an internet toolbar (think Ask.com) and he politely informed them toolbars doesn't really exist anymore and it wouldn't work on things like modern browsers or mobile devices.

Being given a polite but honest opinion was obviously something the client wasn't used to and knowing the guy was a young and fairly inexperienced, they started throwing very personal insults and asking him exactly what he knows about things (a lot more than them).

So being the big, bold, handsome senior developer I am, I immediately phoned the client back and told them to either come speak to me face-to-face and apologise to him in person or we'd terminate there contract with immediate effect. They're coming down tomorrow...

So part my rant, part a rant on behalf of a young developer who did nothing wrong and was treated like shit, I think we've all been there.

We'll see how this goes! Who the hell wants a toolbar anyway?!

If you are reading this, I want you to know that I am probably on some kind of FBI watchlist because I googled "How to kill all children while leaving the parent alive". So yeah, Linux is brutal.

true story

Renaming variables is like...

CSS 101: How to check if elements are directly under each other

When the boss enter to my office

Pun of the day

Boss: I heard your colleagues hate dealing with code you wrote. Why?
Me: No comment

"People are very attached to the idea that there’s one right way, one right tool, or one right framework. If only."
-- John Arundel

Rare that I stumble across a random sticker I want to put on my laptop so redbubble.com helps. Anyone got other fav sites?

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Found this on the net... Relatable as some instructions definately need to be spelt out explicitly for certain people. 🙈

When you drive a little bit too far, you get to the...

Music for programming.
For the ones who didn't know about this website, enjoy!
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http://musicforprogramming.net

Me: 1 is something, 0 is nothing, NULL is the absence of things
JuniorDev: wut
Me: You've got pizza in a box, that's 1. If there's no pizza in the box, that's 0. If there's no pizza and no box, that's NULL.
JuniorDev: OOH so there's no object to reference if I ask for a slice!
Me: *small tear*

Always explain things in terms of pizza. Always.

before I found devRant

When you have a super annoying problem that Google has been unable to help with... But you stumble upon a link with the exact title matching your issue... And clicking on it gives you a 404.

This looks dumb as hell 🙌🏼

Pretty much.

When I am trying to figure out what's going on in the code

I remember learning about the semicolon as a kid, I thought it was just another useless punctuation mark. About a decade later and my whole life depends on it...

"I need your help, just a small fix"

Next thing you know, you are part of another team and harassed for deadlines.

what people think when I say I program in COBOL..

o.p.c.

Amen :p

So true

Gameboy dev kit has parts like these in it's documentation...

That's how I learned OOP in Java at University 😎😅

Old clock/calculator

Just thinking with my ThinkPad in the ThinkPod.

Reading the Facebook PHP SDK documentation today to make a custom feed on a site. The documentation tells you how to do absolutely everything. Which is great in theory, but means you have loads to read to find the small bit you need.

Turns out I didn't need the SDK after all. Used simple curl request instead.

Saw a guy asking on LinkedIn for PHP frameworks. He was currently using notepad++ as framework.

Say what... 🤓