Dear Web Developer:

[theweaselking]

Delivering the completed application to me to install on the server: good.
Delivering the database I need: good.
Delivering the location of the database config file so I can customise it for our DB servername/password, etc: good.
Leaving your own SQL server's root password in the config file that you sent to me, along with an internet-viable hostname: Not so smart.

Everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, appears to be working perfectly. If you know what I'm sayin'.

Much love,
John

Comments

[mhoye.livejournal.com]

Yup, that thar's a web developer.

[drcuriosity]

Indeed. I'm just glad I was never that kind of web developer.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This guy is surprisingly good, as web devs go, he just screwed up this one thing. Removed his "test user" account, left the commented-out root user.

I mailed him, he swore, things were very shortly no longer a problem. But funny!

[drcuriosity]

Yes, definitely funny :-)

[maelorin]

fixed fast too, i bet ;)

[publius1.livejournal.com]

At this point, I no longer even know what "web developer" means. Does it mean a front-end developer? A back-end developer? Both? an HTML designer?

Aaagh I hate language erosion

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

In this case: Guy what makes the entire website, from the ground up, front end and back end, to order.

[drcuriosity]

I put HTML design into "web designer" category, along with graphical design aspects. I generally take "web developer" to mean someone who designs and develops software for the web. Front-end or back-end development? Both or either. Depends on the size and complexity of the project and team.

In my most recent case, in a company of a dozen people: Web designers made the Flash widgets, pretty graphics and sliced them up into efficient templates. Sysadmin handled backups, patching/upgrades and managing site deployment configurations. Sales and project managers wrangled clients and marshalled content. Web developers did everything in-between: designed and built web services, service/site integration frameworks, database schema and product catalogue imports, UI functionality. Everyone did QA.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Whoops. :)

ha - oops

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

Good thing you caught that.

[maelorin]

that is the kind of oversight that can affect anyone, unless they have good procedures - and follow them - prior to handover.

a certain three-letter corporation delivered a rather large project, almost on time, only half over budget, that did most of what was wanted ... but forgot to reconfigure the system ... so it *probably* worked fine, but no one could get into the system to find out.

it took the tla co's techs *days* to figure out what had gone wrong.