Stupid Client Quote of the Day

26th February 2010

Tags : Clients, Idiocracy, Rants

"I want the logo changing of course... I want it to... Umm", (looks blankly for a few seconds), "umm... web two point zero".

Thank God it's Friday.

Developer Says 'No'

3rd February 2010

Tags : Clients, Idiocracy, Rants

I've just had an interesting discussion with one of my accounts managers which raised the question: when do you say 'no' to a client's request?

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MySQHell

12th May 2009

Tags : MySQL, Rants, Windows, Linux

I've just had a nightmare of a development problem. In a nut-shell, I've had to import data, (specifically content articles), from one server to another.

This is normally not a problem, but in this instance the source database had each article's content split into multiple 'page' rows. Also, the source database was developed and hosted by another company. They refused to install PHPMyAdmin, (for "security" reasons), and would not give me FTP access. All I had to work with was a terrible database admin system which they'd cobbled together.

My plan was to dump the data into a new database on our server, manipulate it there, then move the shiny clean data over to the live system. Things did not go to plan...

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Web Designers

15th November 2008

Tags : Rants, Web Design, Random

What it is with web designers and gradients? Oh yeah, rounded gradient edges, they're the worst. Bloody designers, I ask you...