| One i remember clearly was on my first programmer job in 2000. The other coders were poking at PHP but the company had several customers on WebCrossing [1], which at the time was considered one of the "serious" website building tools. I had to customize WebCrossing to the needs of Svenska Spel [2], the swedish lottery company. They had about 200 pages of drawn screenshots how they wanted _EVERY_ detail to look. The problem was WebCrossing did not offer much of customization built in, and i had to basically override every single template. Especially i had to create whole new forum code, because the WebCrossing way of presenting stuff was not how the customer wanted it. Also, for some reason, aftonbladet.se, Swedens then (and still?) biggest news site had got 2 guys from WebCrossing USA office to come over and build their site. Since i did the first gig, i also ended up rewriting the publishing system to aftonbladet.se:s forum from a "pre-moderation" system, into a self-moderating (post-moderation) system. The reason for this was beause the site managed to approve some nazi posts, and the publisher got fined [3]. After all this horror i could finally start learning PHP instead. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcrossing
2: https://web.archive.org/web/20010615000000*/http://chat.sven...
3: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article10198408.ab |