Wacky Designer Redux

They were back again today, Bright Young Coder and Sideways Notepad, discussing an upcoming enhancement to the website.

Lots of talk about the business side of things -- our Business Girl handled that side of things admirably -- I had nothing to say, if she wants green, then it's fine with me; if the contract covers privacy, then I assume Business Girl has chatted to Legal Legal Fairy Land and the t's crossed and the i's dotted. But the Geek Domain is another story, that's a tiny iota of existence where I can add a modicum of Something Beneficial. In this case, me, the Bitter Twisted One, wanted a test system so I can see The Brand New Thing working before Bright Young Coder and Sideways Notepad let it loose on the world.

"Now this test environment we've been talking about. Since we have a specification, we don't need that Test Environment anymore do we? Setting up another server is a lot of work," said Sideways Notepad.

Arrrgggh! I don't know what you think, but 60,000 a week, even in the crazy antipodean escudo barter-equivalents that form the currency system here, is a lot of tinned biscuits. Business Girl, Bright Young Coder, The Boss Who Was (more about her later) and myself manage to get Sideways Notepad to stop talking. I don't know whether he understood, but he did pique-out and draw some rather impressive doodles.

The dude can draw.

Then it was Bright Young Coder's turn, and it sounded sweet. They do their stuff and there's no change to what we provide them... or is there? Well, says Bright Young Coder, we'll let you know if there is when we get to it.

Arggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

If there's one thing you (should have) learnt in Computing 101 besides never looking for potential partners in the class, or trying to build a better bong than the hardware engineering students, is when there is communcation of any sort between two or more things you need to define The Interface before anything else.

Bright Young Thing, your apprenticeship is not yet complete. Everyone needs a massive fuck up before they learn.

And you will, you will...