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We've all encountered database tables that look like this:
ID Data ----- -------------------------------------------- 00001 TRUE, FALSE, FILE_NOT_FOUND 00002 MALE|FEMALE|TRANS|EUNUCH|OTHER|M|Q|female|Female|male|Male|$ 00003 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item id="1234"><name "Widget"/>...</item> 00004 1234|Fred,Lena,Dana||||||||||||1.3DEp42|
Bryan T. had worked for decades to amass the skills, expertise and experience to be a true architect, but never quite made the leap. Finally, he got a huge opportunity in the form of an interview with a Silicon Valley semi-conductor firm project manager who was looking for a consultant to do just that. The discussions revolved around an application that three developers couldn't get functioning correctly in six months, and Bryan was to be the man to reign it in and make it work; he was lured with the promise of having complete control of the software.
Upon starting and spelunking through the code-base, Bryan discovered the degree of total failure that caused them to yield complete control to him. It was your typical hodgepodge of code slapped together with anti-patterns, snippets of patterns claiming to be the real deal, and the usual Assortment-o-WTF™ we've all come to expect.
Jun 17