[dba-Tech] A geek with a hat - My very own daily WTF

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Jan 10 20:20:05 CST 2013


Gross.

Jim

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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:14 PM
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Subject: [dba-Tech] A geek with a hat - My very own daily WTF

I think this is a story a lot of us can relate to.

- Hans


"My very own daily WTF" - a story from Swizec Teller
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People often hire me to grab their codebase by the horns and introduce a
modicum of engineering standards. Eventually I get to implement new
features, but they usually come at the cost of heavy refactoring before I
can even get started.

A good month ago a founder emails me "Hey, I have this product, customer
development at a point where big customers are waiting with fat checks to
use product. I can't even get it to run, original developers nowhere to be
seen. Can you help?"

The original developers fleeing was a bit of a red flag, but the product was
right up my alley: node.js, mongodb, plenty of real-time data flow and speed
requirements for updating the UI. The names of waiting users made my ears
perk up as well.
I'll do it! How bad could it be?....


Follow this link for the rest of the story:

http://swizec.com/blog/my-very-own-daily-wtf/swizec/5829



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