Oh how I miss those simpler times of "trumpet winsock" when the Internet was young and it seemed you might actually get rich from it somehow. hahahah
I too worked for a isp during those times. I remember going to a couple of silence of the lambs type creeps house to get trumpet winsock working for them.
Working for a large international shipping company. I joined a 4 person team of people who had been working there for 30+ years doing other jobs besides coding. They all hated Microsoft because that's what they thought they were supposed to say to sound like they really knew their stuff. I had no control over "the server" which was a out of date bugged custom compiled apache version running on top of windows. My boss was a middle aged woman who knew nothing of the coding end of things and only knew how to be a demanding ball buster. I had functioning code already written for the latest stable php 5.0 version, but that was not what they ran on "the server". I even put the idea of running in a VM out there if they could not afford another server, but my boss told me there was no business case for that. I left that job. I am sick of my hands being tied in this industry. I am tired of having to patch and hack things that should not have to redone. Deadlines were important to this boss, but any technical roadblocks or obstacles with "the server" she had not the first idea of and quite frankly didn't care. Why should she care she doesn't have to write one line of code.
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Oh how I miss those simpler times of "trumpet winsock" when the Internet was young and it seemed you might actually get rich from it somehow. hahahah I too worked for a isp during those times. I remember going to a couple of silence of the lambs type creeps house to get trumpet winsock working for them.
Working for a large international shipping company. I joined a 4 person team of people who had been working there for 30+ years doing other jobs besides coding. They all hated Microsoft because that's what they thought they were supposed to say to sound like they really knew their stuff. I had no control over "the server" which was a out of date bugged custom compiled apache version running on top of windows. My boss was a middle aged woman who knew nothing of the coding end of things and only knew how to be a demanding ball buster. I had functioning code already written for the latest stable php 5.0 version, but that was not what they ran on "the server". I even put the idea of running in a VM out there if they could not afford another server, but my boss told me there was no business case for that. I left that job. I am sick of my hands being tied in this industry. I am tired of having to patch and hack things that should not have to redone. Deadlines were important to this boss, but any technical roadblocks or obstacles with "the server" she had not the first idea of and quite frankly didn't care. Why should she care she doesn't have to write one line of code.