Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

I share your pain Balki, I'm currently working on two projects, a compatibility test suite and a hardware adapatation test suite.

Neither do I, really... What Im really asking is for something to be delivered that is somewhere in the realms of functional and vaguely resembles the spec. It doesnt even have to be any good... just kinda close would be lovely.

What is this 'spec' that you speak of?

I share your pain Balki, I'm currently working on two projects, a compatibility test suite and a hardware adapatation test suite.

Urgh!

What is this 'spec' that you speak of?

Its been a such a long time since I've seen one, Im not exactly sure myself. Best practice FAIL!

Developers... scum of the earth.

Unit test, pleeease!

You're a unit.

Test.

Testing is for losers. If it compiles it RUNTIME ERROR £r%k. $%-(

Huh?

Fucking cowboys.

Neither do I, really... What Im really asking is for something to be delivered that is somewhere in the realms of functional and vaguely resembles the spec. It doesnt even have to be any good... just kinda close would be lovely.

I would like for the requirements to not be.. totally vague piles of shit.

Most of the time we don't get a spec.

All users are wrong, always.

Typical developer bullshit. No business sense.

Dont forget that in 90% of organisations, the IT function is not core.

Is everybody on a busman's holiday?

The only thing I hope to get is a user story in the form of a one-line template:
"In order to {0} the {1} {2} to {3}"

Where:
{0} = increase sales|buy a product|view profitability, etc... the "benefit" or "goal"
{1} = manager|customer|rep|paedophile, etc... the "actor"
{2} = needs|wants|would like... the priority
{3} = take their products to the till|find a product... the "action" or functionality

Generally from that and with a little involvement we can deal with anything.

Point is though, if that one sentence is the limit of the spec that the business or anyone is able to provide then don't be shocked when we don't build what you dreamt up but had never communicated.

I had one of our sales people telling me that "the link on our website isn't working". I asked what the link was. She said that it was a red button and the mouse changes into a hand when you move it over the link.

Typical developer bullshit. No business sense.
Dont forget that in 90% of organisations, the IT function is not core.

We make our money selling software. Guess I'm in the 10%.
As for business sense.. I keep our clients happy.
I think I'm doing quite well in my line of work.
I don't even know what you do so it's not a really fair argument is it?
Fucking management scum.. unreal deadlines, no clue what's going on.
Fucking designer idiots.. no idea about website limitations..
Fucking clients.. never listen to instructions.. daft
Fucking sales people.. promise the earth.. yesterday.. for £5..
Fucking developers.. always eating the last biscuit..

It was temporary, I think because I was restarting memcached to make a small change (addition of L.P.C. link) appear on the site.

No.

There will be more of that stuff shortly... about to add the new L.P.C. forum and usergroup and will need to kick things a few times... it should only affect a minority of people though.

VB is there a way of emailing members of a sub forum? eg L.P.C

Yes, there is. I think... shit, let me check.

ta.

Yes, there is... but it's an admin function.

If you draft the email and PM it to me I'll send it for you.

You can put these tokens in the email and it will be personalised: $userid, $username

So "Hi $username," would appear as "Hi Shinscar" for you.

gotcha... i'll mail you my mail in a bit

ta again.

Pending him agreeing, I've just made hippy a Super Moderator.

He gets a load of powers to do things like merge duplicate threads, and to correct thread titles, etc.

However this is a civil role about helping to maintain the forum... it is absolutely NOT a policing role.

In fact, to that point... should anyone ever suspect that hippy is censoring people, even in jest, or anything like that... then they should report it to me. All of his activity in relation to being a "Super Moderator" is logged and audit-able, so it will be easy to determine whether he does go beyond his remit of helping to maintain the forum.

I've given him this role as he has been consistent in identifying over a prolonged period of time things like duplicate threads, thread titles needing fixing (or prefixing in the case of Classifieds), etc. I also trust that he's not the type of person who will choose to abuse the powers he has. So by doing this I might be able to reduce a little of my workload, or at least have it so that maintenance is performed faster as there would now be two of us doing it.

Oh, and you can always view who is what here:
http://www.lfgss.com/forumleaders.html

Does the super moderator have the ability to unlock threads... last post wins, for example?

Are you sure the "super" part of his title might go to his head.