The Viking Log » Industry Gossip http://vikingcoders.com/log Fantastic Tales from our Adventures in Software Land Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:49:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en 2008 …with a vengeance http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/01/18/2008-with-a-vengeance/ http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/01/18/2008-with-a-vengeance/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:57:08 +0000 admin http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/01/18/2008-with-a-vengeance/ So far I’ve done pretty well with the new year and haven’t yet signed a check, written a letter, or added code to a module with the wrong year. Dreamhost did. Badly. And it’s a nightmare for them, despite the forthright and somewhat amusing blog. Check out their Um, Whoops! here.

37signals, the Rails people, used this as an example of why it’s a good idea to not kowtow to “flexibility” when developing–don’t add a feature just in case someone needs it.

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