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searching altavista for phpbb forums using a version vulnerable to a given exploit or using cross site scripting waiting for someone to bite it, and then upload 99 shell everywhere you would gain access.
It really felt like having superpower.
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Great story. Sure sounds like Dreamweaver. My go to back then was Hotdog Pro from Sausagesoft.
I did the customized splash screen for the version of Paint Shop Pro that was bundled with Hotdog Pro.
I recall also using 1x1 transparent gif for advertising purposes but can't recall exactly why.
Also using curved transparent gif images to give a rounded corner effect on elements using table cells for the corners. Very tedious and also not supported by IE at the time, had to use some funky IE workaround. Now solved by border-radius.
Also using uppercase for all html elements etc. I think it was part of XHTML(?) can't recall. We would also run all our pages through an XHTML validator to check for syntax issues.
Also using flash swf files to enable custom fonts. There was some really genius workarounds in those days to implement features we now take (somewhat) for granted.
The awesome thing about that period was how we learned. You'd be on a web page, see something funky (positioning, rounded corners, etc) and be like "how the heck did they do that?". Then you do the ol' "View Source" and now that technique is in your toolkit. In fact you'd prob head right over to your geocities site and try it out right away.
For JS it's a different story of course but it was never that easy to begin with since the code that affects an element can be anywhere.
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You should still check out to see if your pay is competitive for your role, level, etc. Even an awesome environment might be worth moving away from if your pay goes up 50-100%. Especially if you're not super frugal or have expenses due to other reasons.
But is it worth doing leetcode? I find I can’t bring myself to do it even if it would guarantee me a FAANG position and probably triple my salary overnight.
But if that tripled salary enables you to do things you love you can't do now and it enables them both today and long term... then it might be worth it :-)
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Love your story, it reminds me of my first long term software gig, where I was actually stacking boxes and writing software. I was managing an eCommerce site for a local gym! Best of both worlds? I think everyone should get some grassroots software work under their belt, it's a really different experience working as a team member in an unrelated industry and providing a unique value to an otherwise non-software compa…
Yeah. I'm enjoying the current inflated salaries but this is not sustainable, and it really shuts smaller, non-software companies out of having inhouse fulltime developers. it's a really different experience working as a team member in an unrelated industry and providing a unique value to an otherwise non-software company. This can be the best thing ever, or the worst thing ever. It all depends on whether or not mana…
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I wish interviews were like this. Show them something you built and you get hired instead of the nonsense of leetcode.
I got hired on at a Fortune 500 company in the early 2000s. One of the reasons I've stuck around (besides the great pay and benefits) is that I've read all the horror stories of leetcode interviews. I have zero interest in participating in that nonsense. One benefit of this is, when I am interviewing people to fill development position, I never do any of that leetcode nonsense.
My first software dev job was in the 90's writing PHP for a mom and pop ISP that was trying to get into app development. It was originally supposed to be Perl, the job interview was something like: Me: demos CRUD app for keeping track of my record collection, hosted on a free site Owner: You wrote this? Me: Yeah. Owner: This is in Perl? Me: Yeah. So I got hired. The day I got there, he told me they were going to use…
Great story. Sure sounds like Dreamweaver. My go to back then was Hotdog Pro from Sausagesoft.
IIRC, one of the early marketing "Built in Delphi!" examples.
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I bet this is what a word doc looks like under the hood. Especially if you see what kind of crap code something like frontpage produced. Lots of boilerplate muck and stuff cancelling each other out. We used to call it Strontpage at a place I worked. Stront means shit in Dutch. Dreamweaver was so much better and it embraced CSS instead of trying to avoid it. Though I liked coding in just an editor, for me as a non-gra…
Funnily enough you can see what a word doc looks like because the x in .docx is “XML” so save the word doc as .html and bask in the flaming dumpster fire of the font definitions at the top inline CSS.
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Funnily enough you can see what a word doc looks like because the x in .docx is “XML” so save the word doc as .html and bask in the flaming dumpster fire of the font definitions at the top inline CSS.
I was in a class where week one was “create a blog to keep track of the rest of the projects this semester” and for many of us, no big deal, static site generator, pick a theme for a wordpress, whatever. One of my classmates tho had never touched HTML and was super stressed about the assignment until they stumbled upon the fact the Word can export HTML - and its easy enough to highlight text and add hyperlinks to oth…