The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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IT, well spreadsheets & databasesmany many tricks:-
1) instead of developing something spartan that just does the job (RAD, rapid application development) pander to the customer's needs and give them all the whilstles and bells they need. this leads to much more scope for something to go wrong and makes it much harder for anyone else to understand
2) never put any comments in your code, as long as it works
3) make sure things run on one PC (yours!) so that nobody else can run it. a laptop is best
4) accidentally forget things like...the year changing or bank holidays... things that will arse up the db once you've left
5) leave your business card, they can hire you as a consultant for £500 a day
6) (illegally) password-protect stuff
7) if something goes wrong, make it pop up with your email address, aren't you nice!
(, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 13:28, Reply)
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