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Web Publisher *grrr

I’ve done minimal programming stuffs for two months now. It is a sign that things are not going too well, I miss squeezing juice of logic from my brain from time to time (*sad). I miss using programming IDEs and having headaches due to overtime work. Weird huh? Yes, I guess I am.


Maybe you’re wondering what I have been up to, here is a gist of what my work is like for the past two months.


I’ve been maintaining the company corporate web site, cool isn’t? big time! Sounds fun and interesting and seems to have tons of programming stuffs to be done right? But you’re wrong. In the beginning of the project we all thought that we’ll be doing a lot of programming jobs and expecting to encounter complicated codes especially dojo scripts (my knowledge in dojo is the reason why I was chosen to be part of the project). But to my dismay, the company uses a web publisher that allows any key employee to update the content anytime as they desire but not the layout and other technical details of the site, because that task belongs to us, the maintenance team.


We change layouts, files, flash even pictures and sometimes fix *text bugs. Read it right, yes we often edit text contents, which I previously mentioned can be done by any marketing stuff. It has never been my pleasure to design, it’s not my inclination I guess, yet I’ve been doing design edits for pete sake! I’ve been changing menu and page layouts, resizing pictures, doing a new flash file, and the like and all to be uploaded in that web publisher. Where the hell is PROGRAMMING in that?


My usual know-how about websites are done coding all throughout the site, yet by using this *certain web publisher, less codes are needed, you only deal with xml files (you don’t need much logic in it). To non-IT, the tool is a great help, even fantastic, the tool was created in Java, reliability and functionality is not a question. But to programmers like me it is a pain in the ass. I’ve noticed numerous things that can be easily done when you code it. Plus the publisher took a lot of time for development, aside from its slowness, you need to checkout the files if is already existing and checkin an edited one or the latest file or simply import a new file, but that does not end there, you still need to promote it from three stages (WIP, Staging, Active) and finally publish it. See what I mean? Four key steps that you need to do. *haist it just simply bores me.


Ahhh d***! I need to stop complaining *sigh. I guess I just miss my programming days.


*Cheers to all programmers!

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