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8 August 2003

So this week I started a new job, got ill, got sweaty at the hands of the hottest days, didn’t sleep, got confused and disoriented, felt lost and very, very alone.

I spent this morning writing some really neat code. Spent all afternoon trying to work out why it was seemingly running away and sending the server up to 100% cpu when there was nothing visibly wrong at the client. The pages were finishing loading. My code was full of fail-safes to protect against run away loops. There was nothing ‘wrong’ as such with my code. The logic was good.

The server burning up 100% cpu stops the whole development team from working, and sends a sys-admin off into the server room looking cross. This would be the new dev team and the new sys-admin that I just starting working with this week. Way to make a good impression.

So add frustration and helplessness to the list, and chuck another ‘very’ on the ‘alone’.

- Drew McLellan

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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