The door flew open and harsh artificial light flooded the tiny room. Bob squinted, attempting to defend himself from the accursed light and struggling to make out who, or what, had assaulted his senses. Two amorphous masses lingered in the brightly-lit threshold for a second, then entered the room and
September 1st Team meeting today. Management is pushing us hard to seal the deal with this customer we're meeting on the 4th. So, obviously, we're going to make that deal. The company needs it, so it's my job to make it happen. We need a win. September 4th Meeting with
My coworkers Rajit and Dave [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/simpler-is-subjective-how-bad-assumptions-about-architecture-kicked-my-ass/] and I have been spending an inordinate amount of time over the last few days looking for a really annoying error in one of our apps. The exception message reads like this: > Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess'
I'm doing some heavy refactoring on a project that I've recently joined but that has been underway for months. The code is a mishmash of different styles [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/big-ball-of-mud-anti-pattern-primers/] and an uncertain architecture, so my task up to this point has been to make it more consistent,
Tomorrow we ship out! First patrol in the wild, and it's gonna be a good one. Watch out, wrongdoers, because we're coming for ya! I'm PFC Manuela Ruiz-Borrego, and I'm here to take the fight to the other guys! I joined the development army to help fight the cause, protect