DRAM
I thought this was going to be a story about whisky. Imagine my disappointment!
1566 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Oct 2008
Maybe that's ok for a consumer web application. Those of us writing web applications for the public sector know that schools/local authorities/govt departments just refuse to upgrade.
Take a stand and you'll have my admiration but I'll not be throwing away business. I'll just grit my teeth and keep charging for all those hours of extra testing and CSS-writing.
"So, minimum and maximum wages. Interesting. No matter how hard (or long in some cases) I work, I'll only get paid the same as someone else, in a similar industry, doing less work."
Playing devil's advocate here: so why work so hard? Maybe you could finish work on time, go to the park or see a bit more of the family. You know, work to live and all that?
I'm as prone to using daft test data as the next dev but I NEVER mess about with anything that can send email. My tests are always along the lines "This is a test email from [company]. If you have received this in error, please ignore it."
It's po-faced but the consequences of forgetting your test app's connected to, say, your company email list are too embarassing to contemplate.
Blatant electioneering from a posh clown who clearly doesn't have a clue!
In the interests of balance are we going to see "Vote Labour, our Orwellian database lust will keep you all in work" and "Vote Lib Dem, we won't get in but at least you won't have to feel guilty for voting in the next 5 years of sociopathic lizards"?
Shame, Reg