John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Thu Jan 10 23:57:55 CST 2013
Wow. And I thought I had taken on some bad projects! -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian Andersen Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:14 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues 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 ======================================== 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com