At least some people I "worked" with. About 15 years ago I did consulting in a project where all the effort was on finding excuses. I was not part of the team but had a weekly meeting with the team members. The intention was that I solve technical problems but all they asked me was how they can explain that there was no progress. I resigned after a few weeks.
I never found a sitiation as extreme as this one but gradually I see it day-to-day.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 04, 2010
rule of testing
When testing your own stuff you never test "everything". All you test is "everything that works"!
To "l" or not to "l"
Already planned for days weeks months years I finally took the time to review my web-sites. On some sites the extension was .htm on others .html. I don't like things to be inconsistent so I changed all to .html. I tested "everything" (see rule of testing), launched the sites and tested everything again.
The next day I found that the traffic for cssmate.com decreased significantly. Most traffic from linking sites was gone because they directly linked to the editor http://cssmate.com/csseditor.htm not to the homepage http://cssmate.com/. As I changed the extension to .html all the visitors just received error 404.
Though switching back would have been easy I looked for another solution and found it in URL rewrite. I added a simple rule to redirect .htm to .html and "everything" works fine now.
The next day I found that the traffic for cssmate.com decreased significantly. Most traffic from linking sites was gone because they directly linked to the editor http://cssmate.com/csseditor.htm not to the homepage http://cssmate.com/. As I changed the extension to .html all the visitors just received error 404.
Though switching back would have been easy I looked for another solution and found it in URL rewrite. I added a simple rule to redirect .htm to .html and "everything" works fine now.
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