Last night At Lowes I realized just how much influence software devs have over the market as they couldn't remember if it was Christmas or Halloween this month.

I posted on this topic earlier but am facing another big hurdle to getting work done. I am working on a project that requires another team to deploy a package so my part will work. To get this team to do anything there a million reasonable questions asked, followed by a change meeting that you have to attend, catch is they won't tell you where the meeting is. That's my hurdle.

Lack of documentation on internal deployment process/tool we are forced to use, but can't migrate because the process owner won't approve it because it doesn't meet their unposted ever changing guidelines.

Why didn't I comment my code?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

That moment when you know you thought you where genius, but after a month you revisit your code and have to ask what the hell was I thinking.

That time client computing accidentally uninstalled git from my machine in the middle of the day.

When to log into an encrypted vm that I set up for finances, and realized I had forgotten my password, to decrypt it. Well after a few min I gave up and wrote a short program with all my sees, and rules for altering the seeds and combinations there of.

Got back a few thousand and plugged it into a macro script and went to do chores for my wife. Came back and was in.

To be honest I check on it somewhere in the middle and thought oh crap did I use my dogs name? I didn't but now I am switching to a password manager.

Just inherited a web application, worst security ever, all it does is call an unsecured application that does an active directory call, verifies the user name exists and then grants the role that the username is assigned. That is it oh and if you can find your way into the admin panel anyone can edit anyone else's role.

Come to find out this application got the dev who designed it a promotion to lead.

Work from home can be awesome, Remote Desktop sucks

That felling you get when someone cuts you off on the freeway and they are going 10 miles under the speed limit, that same feeling when project requirements change just before the deadline. That is what I hate most about being a dev.

Marry Christmas everyone !

That moment when you need more space and realize you haven't emptied you trash files in a while and find realize you found 20% more hard drive space

When work says here you know java fix this Javanese application, you have to use this editor with these tools we will give you java 7 your tools need java 8 but that's okay we will install that later not give you admin on your box and not set your path to use the java 8 Jew included with the JDk and wouldn't give the standard Jre because I don't have a business case even though I just need java 8 to jun the tools. Oh well I guess I get paid for trying to figure out how to get it to run without permissions and with a virtualized development application

Having one of those days at the office where there is lots to do and nothing is working, and there was a recent software update to the dev software so it doesn't work with the server I am trying to deploy to and that is the beginning of my problems...at least there is someone at home who is looking forward to seeing me

At work they have an innovation challenge this week and they are putting us in groups based so there is no group with a skill level of over 9000 here is the dialogue:

Survey:On a scale from 1 to 5 what is your Linux skill
Me: vim I use vim

I got a response from the event organizer who said we will label you a 7

What is wrong with our devs that puts me off the scale because I use vim

When I became a dev my parents said: "it's not rocket science, or chemistry or anything good, but at least it's not stressful, or dangerous and we can get free tech support. I hope you are able to pay your own bills and find rent"

A few years, a degree and finding a supportive woman who is now my wife and and I make 4 time as much as my parents make now they want me to move back so they can get their tech support and see my wife I guess she is more social than I am

When in an application security talk put on by our cyber security department and one team (not mine) is being chastised for only doing client side validation, another dev asks so at what point can we trust the user? A few people nod and indicate they want an answer, and the speaker, said never, you never trust the user.

I can't believe people can graduate and get a job and keep a development job, especially in a highly government regulated company like where I work

The worst documentation had to be students work in the sophomore programming course I was a TA for in college.
What was even more tragic was the actual code, but that's what you get for reading Facebook when you are in class.

When shadowing "experienced devs" as a "new dev" remember that if you fix their problems they will tell everyone they did it. At least that is my experience.

While working on a problem my codding partner and I spent far too long trying to figure out why nothing was working with the deployment tool that we where given. The team that maintains the tool told us that all the scripts that we needed to write, to filter and add additional logic to the deployment process, was supposed to be in groovy,

after a couple of hours of having nothing but failed runs, we started poring through the tools official documentation just to find out that the feature we where using used JavaScript instead of groovy. 2 minuets latter everything worked.

The most puzzling thing with the problem is that the code was executing and just having issues with the regular expression that we used on line 20 or so

That time you where asked to start a vm that would over allocate the servers resources, said I don't think that a good idea and where told to just do it.

Well as expected the server slowed to a crawl then crashed. Guess I'll be getting a bigger server now

That moment you realize another team renamed everything, but only in have the project, and the live demo to the customer is in five minutes

my wife and I where talking about the new Star Wars movie and she starts talking about how Star Wars needs mor Jar Jar, and how lovable he is.

The big problem is that I know she is serious.