Eh'm, let me introduce myself (by way of a long rambling tirade). For those poor unfortunates that have happened upon this dreary backwater of an internet blog, my name is Tom. I am a software developer in a very large company that doesn't have real developers. Compared to me, the Dodo is going through a veritable population explosion.
My department, and the 3 developers in it are the only official developers not associated with the public website in a company of over 15,000 employees. Oh, and they are in a separate division because they couldn't deal with the mainstream corporate IT hacks. Sure, there are a few people scattered throughout the rest of the organization, who call themselves developers. But, that is because they know how to use FrontPage, HomeSite, or Access. They wouldn't recognize a language if it jumped up and bit them in the ass.
We constantly have to go through variance processes in order to obtain required software, or machines. Since the company doesn't have any other developers outside of the public website, IT doesn't even know where to begin to deal with us, our development servers, and the various production servers and databases we manipulate. They know how to cookie-cutter off-the-shelf applications and put them on servers. But, are baffled by our request to be able to acces our own servers.
We have finally gotten them to realize that just because a server has power and is operating, it doesn't count as server uptime unless our application is actually able to run!
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