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By: S. M. Sohan

S. M. Sohan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:29:43 +0000

Well, I produced a real crappy software at school as I was working on a real life project associated with my course assignment. The horrible thing was, I had the connection strings hardcoded into the source code! Because I though, in a desktop application the connection string should be hardcoded to protect from security attacks!

I really feel ashamed when I remeber that!

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By: JoshDM

JoshDM — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:35:34 +0000

I worked for a company that had several sites in ASP. Before I worked there, my future manager failed miserably at deploying any successful Java web applications (JSP). This caused management and the application testing team to fear Java as “unstable”. Also, the dot-net manager was feeding their fears in order to maintain “his” technology as superior.

After I was hired, my manager asked me to deploy a web application, which I designed in Struts. It worked fine, but no one trusted it and preferred it to be written in the “more reliable” ASP.

So I changed the .do to .asp in the configuration and everyone stopped complaining. Reliability is based primarily on your development team’s coding abilities, not necessarily on the technology used.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:01:05 +0000

That’s so funny! I think all of us as developers have skeletons in the closet like that, those small projects or little custom hacks that make you shudder when you think back over them (and hope that no other developer ever has to look over them!)

By: KoW

KoW — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:32:47 +0000

/vdir/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.asp, eh?

although: looks RESTful

By: Paul Anthnoy

Paul Anthnoy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:15:44 +0000

Loved this post, I think that with all of us the learning curve when a new technology comes along can cause us to knee jerk in response.

There’s a lesson to learn from this one.

By: Luke Foust

Luke Foust — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:35:55 +0000

That brings back a lot of memories. I actually did work at Encyclopedia Britannica and it was my job to write perl scripts which processed all of their content and made any changes/updates they needed. It was this massive amount of html files and we had scripts that would do stuff like “Replace all links to this article with a picture and a link to this other article.” It was messy but I guess that is where technology was at the time.

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