I swear that some folks I work with believe in their heart of hearts that my teammates and I spend our days randomly futzing with the configuration of things. They encounter a behavior they don’t expect and–boom–“why did you guys change $THING?” $THING has remained unchanged ever since we set $THING up for $SPECIAL_GUY. Nothing…
I don’t know how they did it, but Canonical turned the normally frustrating and inane Eclipse environment set up into a god damn dog’s breakfast rotting on the steps to the portal of hell. I used to want to do a little brushing up on my Eclipse/Struts/Ajax skills but now I mostly just want to…
I refuse to play your silly reindeer games, Starbucks. It’s small, medium, and large. Your faux Italian bullshit doesn’t fly with me.
All those years I advocated for doing XML namespaces by the book. We’re going to want to do stuff with namespaces in the future. All those years no one else thought there was no way we’d ever want to do that and that namespaces introduce unnecessary complexity. All those years of being outvoted. Today, bitches.…
So, for whatever reason, Windows Installer service doesn’t just install crap. Instead, it runs through all of the steps to an installation in some kind of imaginary sandbox thing and then it runs everything again on the live system. Sure, all of this is probably well and good. You don’t want to be halfway to…
They‘re forcing you to virtualize your production SVN server. Your physical server has eight physical cores that can act as sixteen thanks to hyper-threading. The virtual machine they give you has two cores. You ask for sixteen. They hold at two. You make the switch-over and go live and the new virtual machine tanks. You…
I’m hoping the polite reply, with CC’s to the entire sales and marketing teams, suggesting that someone’s CRM data is flawed properly conveys my annoyance. Sending out cold-call emails insinuating we had previously discussed a project leveraging a firm’s product really touches me here. /me points to a “bad” place on the doll. Do people…
Trying to automate all the crap we have to do since corporate policy doesn’t allow static service account/password combos any longer. Hey, no problem, we could use RSA keys. Except, hey, Windows doesn’t do that. So now we’re spending $FOO on some stupid utility to manage, in bulk, Windows service account logons. And $FOO is…
Went visiting the waterheads downstairs to answer version control questions. They wanted email added to a post-commit hook. I recommended subscribing to the RSS feed our installation of Fisheye provides. They didn’t know what RSS was. They’re ostensibly web developers. A little bit of me died on the inside.
I was ambivalent about Ryan Miller previously. He’s now my favorite goalie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvE82q4yKEM