Ten Years of Mistakes and Lessons Learned: The Greatest Hits / Ignite @ NTC 2015 -
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This document reflects on 10 years of mistakes made by Jeff Coburn in his career in web services management. Some of the key mistakes mentioned include coding his own content management system instead of using Wordpress, not testing websites on Android browsers, and editing code directly on live sites. The document advocates treating mistakes as learning opportunities to improve, and maintaining a log of mistakes made to track lessons learned over time.
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- 1. Ten Years of Mistakes and Lessons Learned: ! The Greatest Hits! Jeff Coburn @Coburnicus Senior Web Services Manager! Institute For Community Inclusion! School for Global Inclusion and Social Development! University of Massachusetts Boston! !
- 5. -Me, browsing monster.com in 2002! “Hmmm perhaps this job at a non-profit could be a good fit?” !
- 6. ! “Please kill me.”! —Me, two years later.! “Wordpress outputs crappy HTML. I’ll code my own CMS”! —Me, in 2004!
- 7. —Me, prior to website launch! “We’ll just support everything above IE9.”!
- 8. -Me <sob>! “I haven’t tested the site on Android browsers, but I’m sure it’s fine.” !
- 9. -Me, 6000 times.! “I’ll just edit the code on the live site.”!
- 10. “That code is hot garbage. Who wrote that?”!
- 12. </mistakes>!
- 17. Track!
- 18. Review!
- 19. Findings!
- 21. ! ¯_(ツ)_/¯ !