• JLuc (unregistered) in reply to nab
    nab:
    vt_mruhlin:
    JLuc:
    Or, maybe the whole clever thing is written in J2EE ;-) I know at least one investment company that's ditching their J2EE portfolio manager software and rewriting in Rails.

    Yeah, J2EE was just a fad. Rails is here to stay though.

    Do you realize how bad it feels to squirt hot coffee out of your nose?

    (crap. forgot to quote and this makes no sense.)

    I suspect he was tongue-in-cheeking. I was, kinda. But I wish I coulda seen ya snort coffee ;-)

    FWIW, one problem with the portfolio rewrite is that they don't find any Rails developers that know how to work with corporate back-end software. They're all mostly web 2.0 folks. Note also that Rails is doing the web front-end only, not the whole stack. I don't know Rails, just Python so I had to give this a pass, but it was a dream opportunity otherwise.

  • Hognoxious (unregistered) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    Sure enough I was using the wrong id (remembered the password, but not the ID.) I asked him why the "send me my ID" on the website wasn't working. He responded with "I've been here for just over two years, and I don't think I've ever seen that work!"
    I had exactly the same thing signing up for TSB online; they determine the user ID (i think maybe they're just sequential) and my browser crashed before I manged to write it down.

    Everytime I called the helpdesk, they gave a perfect answer - to how to solve a foegotten password.

    To make things even better, the user IDs are totally unmnemonic and can contain a significant leading zero.

  • bob (unregistered) in reply to Ruben
    Ruben:
    MadJo@Work:
    laser:
    The lower bound is 101, so I'm guessing it's to do with fixed length fields? So it only has 3 characters, and will only have 3 characters. Perhaps it's using string operations and fixed width fields...
    Then why didn't it also support 100?
    They do, it sais: "(...) between 101 and 999 inclusive."

    Inclusive means including the numbers mentioned in the range, as well as those between them, that still doesn't include 100.

  • 3.14159265358 (unregistered) in reply to vt_mruhlin

    Java is just a fad. C# and Ruby pwn it.

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