• Anchorman (unregistered) in reply to Fred

    Every time a new job starts with “Welcome aboard!” it makes me want to jump ship. Except we're not on a ship, Brian!

    Arr, the better it sinks.

    BobX looks more like wreck-diving.

  • nick (unregistered) in reply to Developer

    coldfusion really did make me quit my job

  • Reow (unregistered)

    Good work on making yourself unhirable, Christian. You disobeyed a direct order around the technology to be used. If you were incapable of programming in the required language, you should have done what you suggested and resigned immediately. If you pulled a stunt like that on my team, you'd be out the door the day you arrived.

    TRWTF is no code review. Why wasn't this detected immediately?

  • (cs)

    I never understood why anyone sane would ever come up with their own language or continue to use it. I mean, even if you could justify using a proprietary language, who the hell wants to work for a place where the knowledge they'll learn can't be used at any other company? Most people, especially in software, don't stay in the same company for more than a handful of years; you would be crazy to work for a place where you won't learn anything transferrable. Maybe if you plan to coast along until retirement, but you'd get laughed out of an interview for, say, a PHP developer if you spent the last 4 years working in "BobX" and not PHP. Good luck ever getting a development job after that.

  • Wlademyr Mendes (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Really? You cant be serious.

  • Scott Phillips (unregistered)

    I met BobX in 1997 and he worked for me from 1998-1999. Holy f*cking st that boy is smart. Crazy... fingerpainting in his own shit crazy but I've never met somebody so much fun, before or since. I'm trying to track him down - he has lots of friends in Australia who miss him, so Bob, if ever you read this, find me (on facekak or same old email)

  • BobX Hater #65355 (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Yeah I am just going to have to stop you there and say troll...

  • Jaded (unregistered) in reply to AnonymousX

    You haven't been in this business for long obviously

  • PaulMurrayCbr (unregistered)

    I was Bob. I wrote an entire ORM framework build on top of EJB 2. In my defence - hibernate had not been invented yet.

  • n (unregistered) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi

    It is possible ... I worked for 10 years on GraphTalk :) (prolog met java and made a kid) And could find job after that. But it was pretty hard . So your points still stand :)

  • Jack Hales (unregistered)

    Well... If Bob wanted to keep his language from being able to use PHP, he wouldn't have used his file content retrieval method using an output buffer, and instead used file get contents or cURL. :)

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  • ; DROP TABLE users (unregistered)

    Someone should implement a new language in BobX

  • Guru (unregistered)

    Anyone who doubts this story as 100% true hasn't been around long. No doubt in my mind.

    And I do not think Brian is Bob.

  • Guru (unregistered) in reply to Reow

    Asinine statement. What Christian should have done from day 1 was to explain to Brian his company was being held hostage by BobX.

    Of course Christian needed time to figure that out himself.

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