Ever so slowly

I do web development for banks, as most of you know by now. We host approximately sixty banks, from small credit unions to larger ones you’ve probably heard of.

My second day on the job, I was tasked with updating one of those larger banks – Discover Financial (you know, Discover Credit Cards?). Being a complete noob at the time where ASP is concerned, I was diligently checking my work. I pushed the changes, reloaded the website and was greeted with “Include file not found” – and that was it. The complete Discover Financial website was down, by my own hand.

I panicked.

A quick ‘undo’ didn’t alleviate the problem, so I literally ran to my boss’s pod, jumping from one foot to the other, hands flapping like I’m trying to take off saying “Emergency! Emergency!”

She was on the phone and said “uh…let me call you back.” I quickly explained what happened, but in the explanation, figured it out, and fixed the problem. The site was down maybe all of two minutes, and we received zero calls about it.

Today, some five months later, my boss was having a problem with an ASP login script. I took a look, and in 10 seconds had it fixed.

I’m learning…