I worked at a job like this, an ASP.NET shop using .NET 4.0 and writing it like 1.0.  I ran Simian just to see and it came up with similar results.  I also once tried to run FxCop, and it would CRASH due to so many warnings/issues it found.  This place also ignored compiler warnings for everything (because hey it compiles, so it ...

Good to know, thanks for that!

This is the problem I have with so many of these new things. Yes, IE sucks, we know. But a lot of people still use it. All the newfangled things in the world is shit if your customers (or potential customers) can't access the fucking site! I love how the Twitter Bootstrap functions, but now I have my doubts about using it because I'm ...

From what I've seen, most Delphi people write in-house applications, and use Delphi because either: A) They had free reign to pick a pet language, or B) The app is so old that when it was first written, the Delphi people were more prevalent because at that time it was worlds better than VB6 and not as weird as C++. Still in this day and age ...

At the risk of being flamed, the Real WTF is Delphi.  I've met so many people who swear by Delphi, and I can't figure out why.  Maybe a decade ago when your options were C++ or VB, and I could maybe see not wanting to be a Java early adopter (or even .NET) because of the runtime (Oh gods, forcing users to install a framework to ...

Does he actually mean 30 days in a row, or 30 days ("man days" I guess?) total to write it?

Unfortunately, judges have almost absolute autonomy when it comes to their court.  They can demand anything they want and get it, because they're the judge.

So which industries as a developer/IT pro should we avoid like the plague?  In my experience I'm adding both any kind of law and medical/healthcare to my list; these places almost always seem to be full of WTFery and hacks upon hacks because of the outright crazy amount of legal things they need to be able to address and stop on a dime if ...

Seems like they made Javascript a bit more like Ruby or Python.  Javascript has its flaws, but you can work around some of them and IMO it's still better to learn actual Javascript than try to abstract it away with things like CoffeeScript, RJS (that went away, thankfull), Dart, TypeScript and the rest.  It's bad enough there so ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="ObiWayneKenobi"]I had this issue with a lot of things when I was trying to learn Rails; you'd look for advice on how to do X and find post after post by the Rails cognoscenti that basically said "X is too hard, so Joe Railsguy wrote the Hamfish library that makes it easy to do ...