War Stories
8 articles tagged War Stories.
I Code in vi/vim and Loving It (And No, I’m Not Trying to Impress Anyone)
In 1996, I took my first Computer Science course in college. The professor encouraged us to use vi/vim. Later, at my first job out-of-school, the team was, also, using vi/vim. As the IDE craze took hold at the turn of the century (kind of weird typing that), I never really moved on from there. So,…
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The Time We Deleted Eleven Days from Production
Or: How Humanity Performed the Largest Calendar Data Correction in History
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The Yearly Review Feedback That I Could Never Accept
I have the ability to be a profound jackass. So, most feedback that’s been included in yearly reviews is probably fair. But, fifteen, plus, years ago, I did get one annual review that had one negative remark on it that bothered me then and still does to this day.
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Any Day Your Socks Don’t Burst Into Flames Is A Good Day
I’ve been wanting to use this as a title for a blog post for a while now. It’s actually one of the quotes I have in my personal email signature. The open question has been what the topic of this blog post should be. There are so many asinine stories from fifteen years of consulting that could be…
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Of Daffy Bastards And Goofy F*cks In The Land Of The Lost: Integration Anti-Patterns From The Dark Side
Some organizations keep following the same legacy, bad practices even though they know better. They keep doing it right up until the unfortunate happens.
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Of Daffy Bastards And Goofy F*cks In The Land Of The Lost: Integration Anti-Patterns From The Dark…
Some organizations keep following the same legacy, bad practices even though they know better. They keep doing it right up until the unfortunate happens.
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The Tale of Thomas, Richard, and Karen — A Software Architecture Parable
It so happened that one day, in a corporate IT department not unlike the one you are familiar with, three IT resources were preparing to design a software system. It doesn’t much matter what the system is or what it is supposed to do, for the results would be more-or-less the same. The assembled…
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