July 2005

15Jul2005

When Not to Follow the Spec

Within a few seconds of plugging in the ethernet cable, all of Scott's RSS subscriptions had been replaced with the hotel's registration page URL. All the original feed URLs were irrevocably lost. →

13Jul2005

Hibernate, Oracle and Dates. A Story.

The lesson, of course, is not that Hibernate sucks, or that Oracle sucks, or that Charles can't code his way out of a paper bag (although the fundamental truth is that all software sucks, and by corollary, all programmers suck). In the end, it's just a long-winded way to agree with Joel about leaky abstractions. →