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GeneralSo this is a weird situation... Pin
Sander Rossel12-Apr-22 10:48
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I have a client that writes their own software.
They hired me last year to write a tool for them.
They're not a software company, but their services require these tools.
They've got a couple of websites and a mobile app for Android and iPhone.
It's all mostly updated to the latest versions of .NET with Angular front-ends and all hosted in Azure.
I've seen some docker files too, as well as npm, yarn, Karma, Protractor... All the tools that are, or once were, the popular framework of the day.
One app can have three projects (a back-end service, front-end for customers and front-end for employees), or just the one, kind of depending on when or why it was written.
And it's all written by one guy (who is also the CTO and a real kind of stereotypical programmer, apparently).

Now that one guy got sick, like not coming to work and also not able to do anything for months kind of sick.
And they called me in to take over his work.
It took the guy about two weeks to give me admin rights to everything.
And from that point onward I'll have to figure it out.
string documentation = null;

I'm currently looking for passwords in configs that I now have access to (after I found the configs to begin with).
Just created a whole new database for some multi-tenant application that really needed a new tenant ASAP.
This took me hours as opposed to minutes it would take the original guy.
I also just found out this is one of those three-project applications and I have to add another language to it/them.
Still don't know how to run any of these projects locally Unsure | :~
Taking it one baby step at a time afraid I'll break something at every step...

Cool client though, very nice people, and understanding that at this point I can't make any guarantees.
I'm also kind of impressed this guy wrote all this and judging from a few projects is trying new things.
Still, the whole situation feels kind of weird.
And yes, they knew this was a risk, actually wanted to talk to me about being back-up sooner, but didn't get around to it.

GeneralRe: So this is a weird situation... Pin
Greg Utas12-Apr-22 11:08
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Ed Attfield13-Apr-22 9:16
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GeneralJust Curious... Pin
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Chris Maunder12-Apr-22 7:51
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GeneralAnd so it begins... Pin
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