2009-12-28
There are a few interesting things in software development that you’ll generally only learn about by working on “certain” types of applications. Take, for example, the HTTP 414 “Way Too F#%&ing Long” response: there’s no standardized upper limit and many web servers don’t even document how long GET requests may be.
2009-12-23
“My company has an enormous, in-house built network management application that has every conceivable feature,” Matthew E wrote. “It has everything and does anything that you can imagine... including nothing. And it accomplishes the latter feature with a small-but-conspicuous button labeled Do Not Click.”
2009-12-14
When it comes to clever coding, there’s a fine line between amazingly brilliant and incredibly stupid. Take DocumentDotWrite.js, for example. It's a single-line JavaScript file that’s served (http://rmd.atdmt.com/tl/DocumentDotWrite.js) seemingly all the time by Microsoft’s Atlas advertising platform.
2009-12-09
Clean data makes me smile.
2009-12-07
Like most of his past jobs, Don R started at a new company with high hopes and low expectations. And also like many of his past jobs, his dreams were quickly whisked away. This time, it happened on his first support ticket.
2009-12-02
When Vladimir first received his orders, the blood drained from his face. He was to take the legacy VB5 application, a system used daily by scores of users daily, and uplift it to C++.
