I can never look the same at web sites again. It's either "oo that's cool how they do that" or "wtf who came up with this shit"

As a programmer you know it's going to be a glorious day when you have been getting an error for two days straight and on the third day it's different.

Ooo sweet glory.

// long rant sorry

A few jobs ago I had a meeting that was scheduled for 15 mins. It was not going to be a bad meeting. I was looking at the people that were invited a few dev's, few pm's, and this one guy (Fuck!!). This one guy we will call him R.

So R is a pm but not just any pm he is the pm that will keep asking why like a 5 year old trying to understand how a car works. To top it off he loved to debate in the work place anything and everything. How something worked or why something was the way it is.

So this one meeting was about a project that I had started on my own and turned in to this huge project. I was super excited it was one of those project that you are excited to work on and love to add new things to it. The meeting was to talk about how it was going to be used and what customers sites this was going to be added to in the coming weeks. 15 mins not bad.

Well the meeting comes we finished in about 10 mins I was trying to get out of the room before R started. Well I waited a little a little to long and sure enough he asked the question. "What about this drop down?". Instantly I thought "FUCK!!! Here we go." Now I don't remember what his exact question was about said drop down but it ended extending the meeting by another 30 mins with me almost cussing him out and walking away.

There was a heated debate about this thing and R continuing to ask questions and want to debate this. I was only saved by the lead dev and lead pm say that they think that this is something that could be talked about at a later date. Lucky for me I was leaving the company in the following weeks.

When your computer decides to say "Fuck you!! I don't want to compile your code!!"

Fight spinner - sometimes you just need something to do while the code compiles.

That feeling of going from a high stress job to a low stress job that lets you travel on the companies dime.... pure bliss.

When you give your self a mini heart attack by knocking over an empty water cup while coding.

I can't count how many times I have done this over the years.

Resharper - it makes writing .net code so much more easier and shows you how to rewrite loop.

Everything else VS code - right now it's the new hot thing for me to write ruby, python and JavaScript.

The power of saying fuck you to apple to become a supporter when you have both android and iPhone.

The moment you been putting off windows updates for a week cuz you are working on something important and the restart button shows where you are about to click. FFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!

As much fun it is to code and create new features for users. Take a break from the computer and spend time with real people.

A few years ago I would stay at work to get tasks done. While everyone in the office would go home I would stay and finish some task. After doing that for a few months my wife started to yell at me.

It made me realize that no matter how important a new feature, a bug or optimizing code is family and the relationships you have are more important.

Never assume.. coding, how something works, someone knowledge on something, etc. never assume anything it will come back to bite you down the road.

Friday: Expectations vs Reality

Expectation: Work on work for half the day then work on side projects for the rest of the day. Consider it a good day.

Reality: Work on work for whole day. Then have your boss set the expectation to have a project completed by Monday morning that you know will take 3 more days. Hence making you work the weekend to try to get it done in time. -.-

As a developer I don't have to mess with css very often but when I do and have to fix something for IE the element disappears in ever other browser.... Fml

The coolest project that I have worked on is still a work in progress. It is a dashboard that uses signalR that integrates with team city, active directory and Google calendar. It's definitely one of the coolest things I have worked on to date.

That moment when you get a letter from devRant and its STICKERS!!!! Thanks you 😄

Pm: Hey we need you to add this feature to client ABC and we need it in 3 weeks.

Me: Ok. Just so I know how long have you know about this?

Pm: Oo about 3 weeks ago.

Me(outside): Ok 😐😐😐

Me(inside): Really you could give me some information about this 3 weeks ago. Even 2 weeks ago would have been find. AHHHHHHHHHHH!😡😡😡😤.

When your company hires a third party to develop 2.0 version of your product after doing a proof of concept... Fml