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Not quite sure what he means...
But I agree wholeheartedly, marketing department should not be stopped by pesky things, such as reality checks! 
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The really dangerous marketers are the ones that know the way to R&D and talk to us; if you're foolish enough to tell them about your latest blue sky project, they want, want, want, and pretty soon it's on the list of future features before you even get past feasibility. 
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it's already sold to 10 customers for 1 million each! 
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Too bad it's not "every time a kitten is forced to wait for a developer to feed it, a marketer dies."
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's horrible, think of the kittens!
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Not only marketers, everyone waits for a developer. The director of an internet publishing dept told me that his dept was in fact the corporate communication center. He had to participate in almost every meeting in the corporation.
TOMZ_KV
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Wow, I was hoping this kind of stuff was stopping, not getting worse.
While some of the points are not so far out there, the level of insanity is quite high.
It reminded me of an interview for a lead developer position. The company was behind schedule,
it was all the developers fault, of course. They were hiring me to get them over the hump and
lead things better after that. But get this. They bought a Major Ad spot in 3 magazines, that
were going to start the next month. They were clearly 90 days behind being able to do this.
Lets just say... I didn't take the job. I ran from that interview.
And the funny part, is that on another team, I had a marketing guy pull me and and write on MY Whiteboard:
Product - Sales = Shht! (without the typo)
So I wrote up there:
Sales - Product = Fraud!
After a short while of talking it out, we got each other, and it all went quite well after that.
He agreed to not market what we don't have, and I agreed to push for ONE "MARKETING" feature per quarter
to make it in the software.
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Wow.
There seem to be some legit frustrations in what the author is saying, but he is clueless when it comes to blaming the developers, it sounds like a collection of management/process issues.
What really struck me is when he says that:
"All landing pages have a lot in common: they include compelling sales copy supported by a nice image or video, and they invite the visitor to press a big, shiny button or to fill out a lead generation form. Nothing crazy here — no animation, no bells or whistles. So why the heck would you need a coder to do this for you?"
So, in other words, if he can't see a bunch of fancy animations on the page then it must not take any coding at all. Nevermind that the fancy visual stuff is the designer's territory and not much of a coding thing. Nevermind what happens when that button is clicked.
He is clearly absolutely clueless about back-end processing, which shows that he has absolutely no idea about what the developers are actually doing. Which makes his rant about developers asinine.
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Starting a couple of days ago, I've been seeing the site in plain html mode, no color, etc. in chrome. When I check the messages, it seems I'm getting a too many redirects message, so the script and css are not loading. Anyone else experience this? Sorry if this has already been asked, I can't see the messageboard in it's original format anymore 
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Although it's nice to know I'm not alone, it still doesn't display correctly. When I open the console, I'm getting a ton of "Failed to load resource: net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" errors.
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I was also facing this issue almost 4 days ago, when the CSS file of the CodeProject was having some errors loading. Right now, it is fixed and the website is back in action as it was.
I think if it constantly gives errors to you, you need to contact the Team.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I might have to do that.
I get a bunch of wonderful:
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
errors in the console.
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Try an experiment. Go here: Canary[^] and install the 64 bit version of Chrome - it installs beside your existing 32 bit version - and try it with that.
It solved a weird problem with a different site that started a few days ago for me.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Thanks, I tried that, but unfortunately, the same result.
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In Chrome I get a white border on the right side now. Started a couple days ago for me as well.
Jeremy Falcon
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Mike Hankey does not, in fact, own a hankie.
Not many people know that the word Panky was added after his name in honour of his legendary Don Juan status, leading to this becoming common usage
Mike Hankey invented oxygen. Prior to Mike Hankey, people died very young
Mike Hankey is capable of time travel. He is, in fact, his own brother, grandfather and 3rd uncle on his mothers side.
Mike Hankey is the real name of Bob
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Mike Hankey is the real name of Bob
Now I have scenes of Paul running through my head while I should be re-factoring classes in a website I just inherited.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Don't worry, for sure you have inherited that website from Mike Hankey... 
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That would make it really easy to maintain. A dream even
I have just factored out 12 classes, 4 Interfaces from a single file.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Simon_Whale wrote: I have just factored out 12 classes, 4 Interfaces from a single file.
ReSharper?
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don't have it at work 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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The Appalachian_Trail[^] is merely the walk up to Mike Hankeys house.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Mike Hankey's daily walk to his mail box is beyond the abilities of mere mortals.
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