I often treasure this problem solving aspect of the job by treating coding puzzles as murder mysteries. It adds an air of thrill, excitement, and romance to things.
On a cold, dark night, the Internet Explorer mansion seems like any other abandoned building - decrepit, barren, yet full of passerby taking advantage of the failing shelter. Yet it all changes with a sudden disappearance of the Top Navigation, who was last spotted in that very building. It rocks the entire town, from the blog posts all the way up to the offices of the admin screen.
As chaos slowly seeps into the website, it falls on one lone detective to sort out truth from fiction and browser incompatibilities with buggy code. Armed with only his wits, his text editor, and his quirky yet unpredictable and error-prone JavaScript sidekick, he must find the Top Navigation before the deadline strikes. Otherwise, the client descending on the website will unleash a dark new hell unlike they've ever seen.
See, that makes for a much more exciting ticket than "Our navigation is broken in IE, fix it now." And I'm lucky enough to work for a company that doesn't care what kind of PR descriptions I write :)
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I often treasure this problem solving aspect of the job by treating coding puzzles as murder mysteries. It adds an air of thrill, excitement, and romance to things.
On a cold, dark night, the Internet Explorer mansion seems like any other abandoned building - decrepit, barren, yet full of passerby taking advantage of the failing shelter. Yet it all changes with a sudden disappearance of the Top Navigation, who was last spotted in that very building. It rocks the entire town, from the blog posts all the way up to the offices of the admin screen.
As chaos slowly seeps into the website, it falls on one lone detective to sort out truth from fiction and browser incompatibilities with buggy code. Armed with only his wits, his text editor, and his quirky yet unpredictable and error-prone JavaScript sidekick, he must find the Top Navigation before the deadline strikes. Otherwise, the client descending on the website will unleash a dark new hell unlike they've ever seen.
See, that makes for a much more exciting ticket than "Our navigation is broken in IE, fix it now." And I'm lucky enough to work for a company that doesn't care what kind of PR descriptions I write :)