Don't be sloppy in your scripts
Posted by Sergio
on 2008-11-14
For a few weeks now, every time I try to logoff from my home banking website something bad happens. See screenshot below.(screenshot eaten by backup failure.)
- Firebug opens unexpectedly
- There's a frigging
debugger;
statement in the live production site - The logoff process hangs until I press F8 in Firebug or the continue button
- All my information is still on the screen. Imagine if I had just clicked Sign Off and left my desk.
When I saw this for the first time I though: wow, some developer will be slapped for that (actually there are some developer names in the file,) but it seems that nobody else has a debugger enabled or they just hate their clients that are also web developers. The "bug" has been there for at least 2 weeks now.
Even if you don't care for customers that happen to have a debugger like myself, leaving that kind of thing in your production environment immediately projects an image of sloppiness that is the last thing I want to have with my home banking.
Update 11/24/2008: That script was fixed sometime over this past weekend.