Friends don't let friends code CGI
Friday, 18. April 2008, 14:11:05
If you need any reason to shape up and deliver systems that make sense - it's 2008 people. CGI died before I started making my living with anything related with the Internet. And that includes jobs I've had before actually writing any systems like that.
Get out of your habbits, sit down on your lazy behind and learn how to do things. Oddly enough - it's actually easier that way. Your website doesn't have problems because of load, users, hardware or anything simmilar - your website has a problem because you did somehting wrong. And that's normal and that's ok, as long as you learn your lesson.
Some people don't seem to be able to learn. Some people prefer to repeat their mistakes with stubborn determination. Some systems are doomed to suffer the consequences of systematic wrong choices. Those systems get no love and those people have no friends. Because friends don't let friends code CGI - friends let friends go ahead and break their head with somehting new and fun, not somehting old and boring.
It's a wide world out there and surprisingly enough there's always at least one more person that has faced the exact same problems. Quite often they've solved them as well - or had ideas how to solve them, or their rants will give you your idea how to solve them. So make friends with those people, so they can keep you away from the web-systems equivalent of drinking and driving. It might seem a good idea to you at the time, but the road is marked with the tombstones of others that had the same bright idea.
Please - take care of your friends.
Get out of your habbits, sit down on your lazy behind and learn how to do things. Oddly enough - it's actually easier that way. Your website doesn't have problems because of load, users, hardware or anything simmilar - your website has a problem because you did somehting wrong. And that's normal and that's ok, as long as you learn your lesson.
Some people don't seem to be able to learn. Some people prefer to repeat their mistakes with stubborn determination. Some systems are doomed to suffer the consequences of systematic wrong choices. Those systems get no love and those people have no friends. Because friends don't let friends code CGI - friends let friends go ahead and break their head with somehting new and fun, not somehting old and boring.
It's a wide world out there and surprisingly enough there's always at least one more person that has faced the exact same problems. Quite often they've solved them as well - or had ideas how to solve them, or their rants will give you your idea how to solve them. So make friends with those people, so they can keep you away from the web-systems equivalent of drinking and driving. It might seem a good idea to you at the time, but the road is marked with the tombstones of others that had the same bright idea.
Please - take care of your friends.
