Igor Delovski Board

[XNote]

Migrating To Java 5 at walmart.com

"How do you upgrade one of the busiest web applications of the whole
Internet to Java 1.5? This is a challenge under the best conditions,
considering that the application must handle up to 7 million sessions and
106 million page views per day."

[delovski]

Joel Spolsky: Things You Should Never Do, Part I

"It's a bit smarmy of me to criticize them for waiting so long between
releases. They didn't do it on purpose, now, did they?

Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic
mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite
the code from scratch."

[delovski]

JoS: Programmer behavior observed

"I've noticed that the programmers in my shop have a strong tendency to
rewrite everything rather than learn someone else's code. At first I believed
that it was because the existing code base needed to be rewritten. Now
I'm not so sure; it happens way too often."