I recently participated in an interesting email exchange that I thought would be fun to share with the world. The exchange started with the following seemingly innocent request for help:
From: Frederick, Rob
To: Crow, Drew; Johnson, Quentin; Keener, David
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:42 AM
Subject: Task – IE Testing
I need to test the user interface for my new web site feature under IE 9 and higher. I need some help from the team in order to test this.
An almost instant response came back from another member of the software development team. Note that, except for my own name, the other names have been changed to protect the innocent.
From: Johnson, Quentin
To: Crow, Drew; Frederick, Rob; Keener, David
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: Task – IE Testing
This is directly on the Microsoft Website:
“Windows Internet Explorer 9 lets your websites shine and perform just like native applications on your PC.”
What more of a guarantee do you need?
A few minutes later, the first test results came back from another one of the developers.
From: Crow, Drew
To: Frederick, Rob; Johnson, Quentin (NE); Keener, David
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:51 AM
Subject: RE: Task – IE Testing
Line: 34294 Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module ng due to: Object doesn’t support this property or method http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.0-beta.17/$injector/modulerr?p0=ng&p1=Object%20doesn’t%20support%20this%20property%20or%20method
Is this what “shining” looks like?
I’ve never been one to resist a perfect setup, so I responded with a one-word killer response:
From: Keener, David
To: Crow, Drew; Frederick, Rob; Johnson, Quentin
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:52 AM
Subject: RE: Task – IE Testing
redrum
It’s always fun when I can combine my passion for software development with my love for movies (and books). It’s even more fun when there’s a delayed reaction as people one-by-one figure out my joke.