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Once I wrote a quick demo of a classic content-heavy portal with our in-house portal system (at the time). It took me 2 days over a weekend. Shipped for the demo with some partner, forgot about it.

6 months later, an angry customer wrote to my boss about the "Energy Saving Monitoring System" somebody sold to them stating that some kind of SSO wasn't working as expected.

My boss handed the case to me and I, flabbergasted as I was, proceeded to delve deeper into the strange report about that system we were sure we've never written, let alone sold to somebody.

Long story short, it was my quick demo of a content heavy portal, turned into that monster of a "Energy Saving Monitoring System" - whatever that is - by the partner we demoed it to, and sold to several customers as a finished product.



LOL, been there, done that.




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