Colourblind

I think your script for creating fake developers is broken - is she called Laura, Lucy or Sophie?

Also: please stop emailing me.

With all due respect,

Tom.

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From: Some Spamtard [some.spamtard@weaksauce-recruitment.co.uk]
Sent: 06 July 2011 19:54
To: Tom Milsom
Subject: Laura Atherton - .NET Developer – Available For Permanent Work

Hi Tom

I'd like to make you aware of an exemplary .NET Developer who is currently seeking employment in your area. Below is a summary of her CV:

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

*Lucy has 4 years' commercial development experience. Her skill set includes: .NET 3.5 / 4.0, C#, ASP.NET (MVC and Web Forms), WCF, SQL Server 2008, LINQ, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Castle Windsor, TDD, BDD, NUnit, Rhino Mocks, NHibernate and Subversion.
*She has a strong track record of delivering enterprise level projects.
*Her industry experience includes broadcasting (ITV) and e-commerce (Tesco.com).

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

*BSc Computer Science - University College London - 1st Class.
*4 A-Levels: Maths (A), Further Maths (A), Physics (A) and English (A).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

*Sophie's interests include blogging and horse riding.
*She is available at 4 weeks' notice.
*Her current salary is £33k.
*Her salary expectations are: £34k+

I wanted to establish if you have any open positions that Laura might be suitable for? Should you require additional details on Laura please don't hesitate to contact me. Apologies in advance if you aren't the correct person to contact; if this is the case can you please advise me who is?

Thank you

Some Spamtard
Consultant
Weaksauce Recruitment

Please fuck off.

Love and kisses,

Tom

It's a web crawler of some sort that is currently molesting one of our client's sites. According to Tracer T it's being run out of some crappy domestic DSL in Montreal using the user agent string 'WebCR/1.0'. Which would be fine (bandwidth sucking, but fine) except that it's using a corrupted viewstate so I'm getting an error alert in my email for every page it hits. I got in this morning to find 1873 emails in my inbox. It seems benign but with that much noise we really can't be sure.

Either way, it's dropped the signal to noise ratio of our error reporting to 0 so it's getting blocked. Just seems odd that I can't find any mention of it anywhere on the Tubes.

Well, fuck.

I honestly believe that IE6 retarded web development by 4 years and even today it is a constant battle trying to build sites to web standards that work on that hacky, fossilised heap of crap.

The blame seems to be on lazy IT departments and lame intranet app developers (loltroll), so if you see someone from either of those camps in the street, kick them in the balls once from me and everyone else on the Internet.