Thermopolye?
Thermopolye ED: As long as there’s good ground.
Thomas Hehl is a system architect at Heavyweight Software (https://www.heavyweightsoftware.com), author, and all around thinker. He currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Sir Edmund
Sir Edmund You only see one once every 75 years. The last one was in 1986…
Write Only Code
Write Only Code ED: I think I’ve worked with this guy.
Puzzled
Puzzled This was before a set of code that technically did fix the problem it was meant to but broke 3 other things….
Meaning and Understanding
Meaning and Understanding ED: Worked with this guy too.
Future Me
Future Me And I just found this one today:
Cross your Fingers
Cross your Fingers ED: I understand that feeling.
And Through it All…
And Through it All… Many years ago (about 1994) I was working on a Oracle PRO*C application for a large multi-national software company that you will have heard of. The app I was working on was a massive Oracle application and they had a utility that ran overnight tidying up data and doing all sorts…
Synergy
Synergy ED: Buzz-word bingo.
Micro-managed Code
Micro-managed Code This one was a living proof, in production code, of micro-management effects in our team: … followed by less than optimal code, conceived by our beloved technical director, who was quite fond of forcing down both code and coding guidelines into developers’ throats (*). Of course, when the project leader searched for the…