This morning it was quiet at the Insane Asylum! We were informed that due to planned work being done on the trees growing through power lines, we would loose our power supply for a short while. To prevent damage to servers/systems/coffee pots we shut down all electrical equipment at 9am (The time we were told the outage was due for). At approximately 10:45am we were informed the power work had been done, and that we would not be affected after all. So everything was re-powered back up.
When FireFox starts up on my desktop and re-opens the session I had before the shutdown I notice something odd. A development site I have been working on is now displaying some errors. “ARRRGGGHHH! what did I do? was I in the code when my machine switched off?”
I quickly check the Live site, and that has the same errors as the dev site. “err OK. we work on the dev site, test any changes and only if they shown to work do they get copied over to the live site”
A quick check of the file system shows files in both the live & dev areas with modification dates/times of 9:30am today. Which means they were played with during the time the Asylum was off-line, which means only one possible person with access. The freelance Phone developer who for his own protection we shall call PhoneBoy (PB). The following is a breakdown of the IM conversation that has occurred.
WO: “Hi, What did you do to the site? Both Live & Dev are showing errors?”
PB: “Nothing, not touched it, and not seeing errors here!”
WO: “Are you sure? Try refreshing the browser, I’m seeing the errors here on multiple machines”
PB: “No errors, and I checked IE and Firefox”
*Repeat the last few entries continually for about fifteen minutes*
WO: “Seriously every machine here is showing the same errors, here look!” *Phone photo & email*
PB: “No. still cant see any errors and I even checked with Linux. and I did not do anything, all I did was comment out some code to make the pages load faster”
WO: “You commented out code? what code? Where?”
PB: “See I removed what I did and the page loads slow now”
WO: “Yes but it now loads! And the errors have gone. Please leave it alone. I’ll make the page load faster, you leave it be!”
I would not mind so much, only this happened every time he does anything. You have to fight for about half an hour to get him to admit he actually did anything. Then another hour to find out exactly what he did, then ten minutes to actually fix the problem.
So as the post title says.
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$head->brickwall(“BANG”);