Looking forward..

Finally after a year plus (officially was 8 months) in the project, my contract has ended.

I was left with a defect and the handover task to finish when I began my work again in this new year.

I was actually going to leave the bug there because I figured it would take longer time to fix. Since I was waiting for the other side developer to contact me for the handover, I tried it. A little bit hack here and there... oh ya, before that, I gotta give credit, THANK YOU IE, for making my life difficult. Why? Let me give you some background of my hatred.

1. It always cache for no reason.
2. I have little problem with firefox's version update than IE. Whenever IE have an update, it gave me headache. IE8 has so little compatibility for the world nowadays. Thank God that client actually agree to deal with minimum of IE10. Otherwise, many requirement will have roadblock due to the incompatibility.
3. IE definitely has something against CSS. Properties with value "initial" to be specific.
4. IE < 11 developer tools sucks! It was much better after updated to IE11.
5. IE is more strict on security reason that makes developer's life difficult.

I'll leave it like that as of now. It wouldn't be fair to IE if I start complaining about the different way it interprets the data.

Truly it has taught me to always check for cache in IE if suspect that the code change should work. Clear cache to be exact.

Back to what I was saying, yes, hack here and there, I have fixed it!

I actually thought the handover going to be a trivial task. I was glad that the developer actually understands the code and only asks for clarifications because he wasn't sure of the library I used.

So I was ready to go home last night after closing the chapter but my manager stopped and reminded me to send an email to the client as a notification. I guess he was right. So I stayed back a little later. It was just a simple short email but it took me like forever to construct the email. Eventually my manager and my colleague who asked me to CC him in the email has left and I'm still at my place constructing the email. That's just a little FYI of the reason why I'm all smiles when I get the client's reply.

Joanne, thank you very much for the work.

Your passion and commitment in your work culture have driven the project to another great level.
I admired some of your skills in UI design, communication and technically literated at this young age.
Please continue to cultivate at what you love at and I look forward to working with you again very soon*.

John

*I'm already working on a big plan behind

I'm so delighted! Best part is, it's CC to my manager as well! ^^

I can't hold back my smiles. That wasn't the first happy email I receive from the client about my work. It really does gives me motivation to continue what I am doing! Thanks! I really appreciate it.