July 2005

15Jul2005

When Not to Follow the Spec

By carlfish on

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.

By carlfish on

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.