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Post by chris on Jan 20, 2016 16:47:33 GMT
All coded but too late in the day to publish to the site, will go live tomorrow morning.
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Post by Investboy on Jan 20, 2016 16:56:45 GMT
All coded but too late in the day to publish to the site, will go live tomorrow morning. I'm a web developer and want to work for you  Why you ask? "too late in the day to publish to the site". In all my life releases were done: midnight, weekend, bank holidays. You must be the first company in the globe that treats developers fair and do releases during business hours.
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Post by chris on Jan 20, 2016 17:18:51 GMT
All coded but too late in the day to publish to the site, will go live tomorrow morning. I'm a web developer and want to work for you Why you ask? "too late in the day to publish to the site". In all my life releases were done: midnight, weekend, bank holidays. You must be the first company in the globe that treats developers fair and do releases during business hours. We are recruiting 
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Post by ben on Jan 20, 2016 17:23:11 GMT
All coded but too late in the day to publish to the site, will go live tomorrow morning. I'm a web developer and want to work for you Why you ask? "too late in the day to publish to the site". In all my life releases were done: midnight, weekend, bank holidays. You must be the first company in the globe that treats developers fair and do releases during business hours. I guess advantage of being in charge can do it when you like
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Post by Investboy on Jan 20, 2016 17:28:22 GMT
chris I'm a web developer and want to work for you Why you ask? "too late in the day to publish to the site". In all my life releases were done: midnight, weekend, bank holidays. You must be the first company in the globe that treats developers fair and do releases during business hours. We are recruiting Where can we find more info about that?
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Post by chris on Jan 20, 2016 17:47:34 GMT
chris I'm a web developer and want to work for you Why you ask? "too late in the day to publish to the site". In all my life releases were done: midnight, weekend, bank holidays. You must be the first company in the globe that treats developers fair and do releases during business hours. I guess advantage of being in charge can do it when you like It's more that I've worked in and run agencies for most of my professional career and am well versed in the pitfalls of the approach that tends to be used. For the most part agencies are very cost sensitive with most projects being under specced during the proposal phase and ending up with inaccurate development plans and costings, and more often than not it's the development team that bears the brunt of that rather than the customer or sales team. So the developers end up having to work long and unsociable hours to deliver huge projects in condensed timeframes. Because AC is a singular on going project with a fixed team we are personnel limited not budget / time limited, and that affords me a different approach. I'd not push the developers so hard that they burn out point and need replacing, as many agencies do, I'd rather they were happy and committed for the long term. That's not to say there aren't pressures to deliver and deadlines to meet, but in general they tend to be more realistic and can be adjusted as other priorities come in (which does happen more frequently than optimal). I'm still learning how to get the most out of this approach but certainly our developers are happier with the way we work.
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Post by chris on Jan 20, 2016 17:49:19 GMT
We are recruiting Where can we find more info about that? Not currently published on the internet and only just thinking about contacting recruiters (I hate having to deal with them). If genuinely interested then please feel free to PM me your details. We have one urgent replacement to find and will need several more of varying talents over the next few months. The development team is based in Farnborough, Hampshire, however operate a flexitime policy and allow working from home for a proportion of the working week.
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Post by bob76 on Jan 20, 2016 19:59:02 GMT
So AC has got £8m of new loans to display on its site (after a drought for several weeks), but is stuck in getting them displayed because of functionality/page changes (which is suddenly deemed required, couldn't be prepared before, and stopping some core business from happening)?
If I were a bit sarcastic, I would say that maybe it's an excuse, and not all details of those loans are sorted yet (such as the interest rate for lenders, not provided on the previous list published?).
If I were the business manager of the site, I wouldn't surely let new functionality get in the way of core business being delivered. I don't think people will leave for other platforms because the new loan page isn't perfect. However, they will if no loans are available.
Sorry for being a cheery old soul...
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Post by ben on Jan 20, 2016 20:03:38 GMT
So AC has got £8m of new loans to display on its site (after a drought for several weeks), but is stuck in getting them displayed because of functionality/page changes (which is suddenly deemed required, couldn't be prepared before, and stopping some core business from happening)? If I were a bit sarcastic, I would say that maybe it's an excuse, and not all details of those loans are sorted yet (such as the interest rate for lenders, not provided on the previous list published?). If I were the business manager of the site, I wouldn't surely let new functionality get in the way of core business being delivered. I don't think people will leave for other platforms because the new loan page isn't perfect. However, they will if no loans are available. Sorry for being a cheery old soul... Well will we all see tomorrow
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Post by bob76 on Jan 20, 2016 20:08:48 GMT
Well will we all see tomorrow ... or Friday. I don't know many e-commerce sites that would have £8m of products to sell (in a highly competitive market), but wouldn't display any products to the customers because the old listing page is deemed no longer appropriate and needs to be improved (and would therefore turn down customers for days or weeks).  I like to tease...
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Post by chris on Jan 20, 2016 20:14:40 GMT
So AC has got £8m of new loans to display on its site (after a drought for several weeks), but is stuck in getting them displayed because of functionality/page changes (which is suddenly deemed required, couldn't be prepared before, and stopping some core business from happening)? If I were a bit sarcastic, I would say that maybe it's an excuse, and not all details of those loans are sorted yet (such as the interest rate for lenders, not provided on the previous list published?). If I were the business manager of the site, I wouldn't surely let new functionality get in the way of core business being delivered. I don't think people will leave for other platforms because the new loan page isn't perfect. However, they will if no loans are available. Sorry for being a cheery old soul... Not all interest rates will be published on the new list, that's not the reason. When the functionality change was first proposed and internally approved it was to provide a list only with no link through to the loan. I've since pushed for more details to be provided as they become available and for lenders to be able to set targets / notes against those loans as they see fit. That meant refactoring the loan details page as it now has to cope with displaying loans in a partially completed state whereas before there were guarantees that all the information was present. The old page was also structured around the auction database table and linked to the loan table, where as now not all of the loans have an auction at this stage so we had to restructure all the queries around the loan table bringing in the auction details when appropriate. So you may sarcastically suggest that but you'd be completely wrong. It's simply been a big expansion of scope of the work that has taken longer to get specced, approved, built, tested and signed off as compliant. Unsurprisingly that has taken an extra two days to get live.
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Post by Financial Thing on Jan 20, 2016 22:34:22 GMT
chris Can you add a column which tells us which loans will default in future and which ones are 100% safe? I know you know  Seriously though good work on the changes.
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Post by ilmoro on Jan 21, 2016 0:09:32 GMT
chris Can you add a column which tells us which loans will default in future and which ones are 100% safe? I know you know Seriously though good work on the changes. Chris is a self-confessed rate w**** and is probably in all the defaulted loans as a result so not sure he's the one to ask. Right! Time to remove the cobwebs & dust from the cupboard ready for the big reveal tomorrow.
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Post by bob76 on Jan 21, 2016 6:24:31 GMT
Not all interest rates will be published on the new list, that's not the reason. Sorry, I meant the list of upcoming loans you have posted on this thread as a preview didn't have any rates against any loans (was containing the time of loan, amount, duration), so I can only assume it was still being decided. I think interest rates in "recent" loans published on AC have gone down quite a bit, so I could see why such information has to be managed carefully, particularly when other platforms now also have loans with security at 12 or 13%.
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Post by bob76 on Jan 21, 2016 6:36:22 GMT
Because AC is a singular on going project with a fixed team we are personnel limited not budget / time limited, and that affords me a different approach. So it's more like an effort-driven model, or being Agile, where the business can prioritize their features based on development capacity available. Makes perfect sense, and many web or IT projects have moved to that model. I think AC has the best and most polished web site, when it comes to functionality and design, particularly when compared to FC for instance, which must have sacked its web development team 18 months ago. However, It's just "content", business available that is lacking on AC.
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