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Ryan recently received some thorough documentation from a client regarding a third-party API he had been tasked with integrating.
He found it quite helpful that the documentation included an Excel spreadsheet that listed the accepted values for each input field. Particularly helpful was the page on acceptable values for the "dob_dd" (Date of birth -day) field, which lists the "title" of each day and its corresponding "value".
Some folks use Waterfall. Some use Agile. A. W.'s team uses Waterfagile. Now you might ask, wtf is waterfagile? Well...fasten your seatbelts...
A. W.'s manager was charged with designing a black-box replacement for an existing system that was over-engineered, over-complicated, over-interfaced, over-configured and utterly incomprehensible. The highly paid consultants who wrote it have all long been let go. Before they could write up user guides, developer guides, architecture diagrams, or pretty much anything else. All of the records of the licenses for the third party libraries used by the project were lost or misplaced. When something went wrong, the only plausible answer was: sorry, we can't fix it, so incur the loss.
Apr 14