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Like a ninja in the night, Hanz M., AKA Hanzo, stalks across Hesse University’s Dresden campus. The go-to man in the IT department, he fixes the messes that others leave behind. This is one of his stories.
"You absolutely must read this," Hanzo’s boss Gertrude said. "This is beyond hilarious."
It was the klaxon noise that Jacky hated the most. If there was even a whisper of the word “hacked,” Mr. Cullen would sound the alarm.
“All-hands meeting, boardroom, right now,” Mr. Cullen said. He left the klaxon on as the employees of Red Feather assembled in the boardroom. “The webserver,” he said gravely, “is no longer responsive. We’re being hacked as we speak.”
The company was moments away from launching an Android port of their popular app, WereWolfTasks. The task management app plays a video of a transforming werewolf if the user doesn’t complete his to-do list before a full moon. Because IniTechMobile was an iOS shop, they outsourced the Android port to VampMobile, an eastern European company that specialized in iOS to Android ports.
The app launched on Google Play. Almost immediately, complaints flooded Support’s ticket log. "The werewolf video is all smushed when I rotate my phone!" "My tasks keep getting erased every time my phone restarts!" "Why are the tooltips all in Romanian?"
Sep 13