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Bleu supports a Pimcore-based PHP site. Pimcore is a rather sprawling enterprise system for PHP. Like many Model-View-Controller type frameworks, maps HTTP requests to actions on controllers. Bleu's team has several "default" actions configured on their controllers. Let's take a look at a few of them.
public function searchAction()
{
// TODO: replace with actual search
// instead of static page showing all important subpages.
}
Matt's team had a party after their last release. It was a huge push, with tons of new features, that came at the end of many months of work. On the Monday after the party, they came back into work for unsurprising bad news: nothing is perfect, so there were several issues and defects that needed to be patched, quickly.
Since QA is the team responsible for signing off and approving any work, QA is the team that also owns the defect tickets. Matt and his team can't do any work without a ticket, which meant they spent almost an entire day knowing there were bugs to fix, but without any idea of what bugs to fix.
Inilock started making locks back in the 1880s, and has always had a conservative approach to changing things about how locks work. But the world has moved on, and the pin-and-tumbler has given way to RFID card readers and electromagnets.
Since Inilock didn't have the internal expertise to build industrial locking systems for commercial customers, they did what any company would do: they hired highly paid consultants. The project started in 2018. These consultants went out and build a lock firmware platform, a server, and a homegrown TCP protocol to handle configuration and setup, handed it in late and over budget, cashed their checks, and vanished, by 2022.
Mike was refactoring an old web application written in Perl. We joke about Perl being a "write only language," but the original developer wanted to take that unreadable attitude to the JavaScript front-end portion of the application.
function setup() {
position('m1',46,220);
position('m1g',33,200);
position('m1c',33,200);
position('m2',46,330);
position('m2g',33,310);
position('m2c',33,310);
// ... snip 50 lines
}
Typos are the bane of delevopers' existence. For most of our typos, the result is a syntax error. It's quick and easy to find and fix. But any time we're working with strings (or in languages where variables are declared at use) there can be many more subtle bugs.
So when Abigail's company sent an intern off to fix a few typos, they thought this was a lovely little low-hanging fruit bug to fix.
There are common errors that are (or were) once so common that we've built tools to help us avoid them. So I was a little surprised to see this JavaScript from Annie's co-worker.
toggleField() {
this.updateToggle(this.obj.id, this.toggle).subscribe(data=> {
if (data.status = "success") {
this.showToast('Toggle updated successfully');
...
}
...
}
}
David's organization didn't fully understand why you bring interns into a company. The purpose of an internship is to provide an educational opportunity and resume line-item to someone looking to enter the industry, and possibly recruit said intern after they graduate, getting a new-hire that is more ready for your team than average. It's good for the intern, it's good for the overall health of the industry, it's good for the company building its network of professional relationships and recruiting opportunities.
The purpose of an internship is not to just throw tickets at an intern, and let them commit code to your main branch, unsupervised. Unfortunately for David, and for the poor interns that preceded him, that is what the company had done.
Sometimes, you see a code sample and you almost scroll by. "This isn't bad, I see it all the time." So it took a second glance to see the awful charm of what Henrik H found.
Henrik was asked to join a project to fix a high load website having "some issues". Here's a JavaScript tag that was included on nearly every page.