The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Consultant Designed Success

by snoofle in Feature Articles on 2015-02-26

Circa 2005, using XML and XSLT to generate HTML was all the rage. It was cool. It was the future. Anyone who was anyone was using it to accomplish all-things-web. If you were using it, you were among the elite. You were automatically worth hiring for any programming-related task.

Back then, Richard was working at a small web development company. In this case, "small" means the boss, whoe was a bright guy, but who had absolutely no knowledge of anything -web, -computer or -technology related would make all decisions relating to hiring, purchasing technology and creating technology procedures.

79 comments - Last comment @ 2015-02-28

Variables Everywhere, But Not a Stop to Think

by snoofle in CodeSOD on 2015-02-16

SharePoint. What can you say about it? Among other things, it's designed to help you manage and present content. It's supposed to make things easy for you. If you want some customization, just write some code to do whatever and configure it to run at the appropriate time for the appropriate page(s).

Of course, this leaves open the possibility that folks who may be something less than experts might author said customizations.

19 comments - Last comment @ 2015-02-16

Head in the Tag Cloud

by snoofle in CodeSOD on 2015-02-03

When most folks create something, be it carved, welded or coded, they take pride in what they're creating. It's a reflection of their soul. It's personal. They care.

However, once you tell someone that their stuff will be in or on something that is someone else's responsibility (aka.: problem), they often take less care in what they're putting there.

60 comments - Last comment @ 2021-06-19