I have a lot of experience as a software developer in Desktop Applications, but moving to a project involving many Web technologies, creating an API is a new challenge to me.
I asked a Senior Developer in the Authentication team how to get set up. I didn’t even know where to go to even begin to create a user, then didn’t know how to get the correct permissions etc. Then the process of developing against “DEV” environments rather than a “Production” URL is another mystery to solve.
Tony: "you need to exchange the Advanced-Auth token for an 3rd-Party-Token token"
Me: but don't I need to get the Advanced-Auth token first?
Tony: yes
Me: Don't I need to link my user to be enabled for Advanced-Auth?
Tony: yes, just do it through the app
Me: I have never used the app
Tony: create an account then
Me: but I need to know how to get the app in order to create an account
Tony: host.int.solutions.com thats the url you will need
Me: but if I am making changes in a project, then do we use DEV rather than INT
Tony: So everyone integrates with int as dev is unstable
Me: If no one uses DEV then what is it for?
My conversation with Tony is like:
It’s gonna be a long month.
It’s frustrating that he was only giving me basic information. You’d think there would be like a general “New starters” guide he could have linked me to. Or his team should have had documentation for creating new users. They probably do, he was just being awkward.
I suppose this is the classic example of a software developer that is skilled in actual coding but not so good at communicating.
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