Standard Working Practice – Part Two
Posted: Tue 16 May, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Geeky, Work-related |4 Comments »Further to the problems mentioned in yesterday’s post, the Sys-Admin and other Lead Developer had a talk with me yesterday, and suggested another alternative, which I forwarded to Arsehole Boss…
Following discussion between me, [SysAdmin], and [Application Lead Developer], would it not be a good idea ( and far easier to maintain ) if in the site we did the following :
- Change the Left-hand navigation so that “downloads” links to the sourceforge project page
- Change the right-hand navigation so that “download� goes directly to the download page on sourceforge.
This way it means we don’t have to do buttloads of changes to links in multiple templates for the download files, and also that we don’t have to mess about with the document manager in Mambo, which caused at least half the problems on Friday.
In addition, it means that users have only one place to download the application from, which helps us keep clean numbers of downloads etc.
It also means that when, as has just happened, [Application Lead Developer] changes the name of two files, we don’t have to then try hacking about with the existing document manager pages in order to change to information to the correct filenames.
The reply this morning has just made me want to walk straight back out.
We moved the download links to the site specifically to give our key website presence and to give our community a single point to access all things for the Application, and will keep it that way.
If the larger issue here is that you are in-capable of doing a simple thing like maintaining the download page on what is the most important website in the company then I will find someone who is capable of taking care of it for me.
Fuckwit cunt
Oh. My. God.
Leave. Leave now. Don’t look back, just leave.
I don’t normally comment but…. tell him to get stuffed pleeeease. The man is a moron of the first degree. Let him try to find someone who can do it and then he can explain to his boss why it’s all gone wrong (although if you’ve left he’ll probably blame you). You have to get out of there.
Not that I understand fully what’s going on, but would a best-of-both-worlds solution be to create a ReWriteRule that [invisibly?] redirects any “local download” links to the corresponding SourceForge page?
I don’t often use the word beginning with p and ending in k which also means the action carried out by a sharp needle BUT he clearly is one and you don’t suffer them gladly. Fingers crossed for Slough on Monday. Although… Slough? Eeeuw.