I don't know if I have mentioned it, but Platformic is a very frustrating production system for the web site. It always seems to fail me at the most inopportune times. I have suffered from missing cursors about 100 times in my one week here. I got to deal with Platformic at its finest the other day.
Art described to me that I will be doing "real intern work" and "apologized in advance." I then found out what I was going to be doing. There were 2800 stories in the top story database, and I was responsible for deleting all but ten of them. This is where the annoyance of Platformic comes in. I have found it never makes ANYTHING easy. To delete these I had to go to a pull down menu go to "remove this article from feed" hit enter... then a new screen comes up confirming the removed story. Then take into consideration loading times. This task took me eight hours (you read it right) possible carpal tunnel in both hands, and excessive amounts of Mountain Dew to complete, but it was done.
It gave me a sense of gratification when Art gave me a high five after completing the task. Now, (because of me) instead of news in the top stories being displayed in order of submission they can be placed in order of importance.
Needless to say, the task sucked. If these are the things I have to do to make a name for myself and show I am dedicated to my dream... so be it.
No comments:
Post a Comment