[quote user="gms8994"] Unfortunately, we actually have a table column that stores a CSV data :( [/quote] How about kinda-Java code embedded in XML which is then embedded into a column of a CSV? The kinda-Java code itself also contains XML.

[quote user="beau29"]You business programmers, with your profligate refusal to collect your garbage or lift a finger in the way of optimization, could learn a lot from the people who program these devices.[/quote] Except that the first priority of a business programmer is readability and maintainability...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]Second, RSS isn't even a very good protocol for these kinds of things because it has so few attributes that can be use.[/quote] Unless, of course, the RSS content is actually just another XML document! Hmmm, I wonder if the aggregated RSS feed contained the...

Its actually good design principles to make applications extendable for future expansion… I mean, what if in 2090 you could have the option for data to be transferred directly into the brain? At that point it would simply require you to create a new class, implement the IDiliveryMethod interface, associate...

[quote user="CDarklock"]A* A_A (A *this, /* other arguments */) { return this; } // FTFY [/quote] Okay, if Cfront did this, the snippet'd work. But why? You're not supposed to change this , anywhere, anytime. It makes no sense! After all, what would happen if the object wasn't allocated...

Sometimes you get in interesting look into the life of other programmers quite unexpectantly. When browsing around you think you are looking at a fairly simple TV guide - but then suddenly you get an insight into the griefs that some poor souls is having: com.bea.portlet.adapter.scopedcontent.ActionLookupFailedException...

[quote user="CodeSimian"]Let me get this straight. You are saying that you would use the Internet if it consisted of only 20 pages of several million lines each? And you think normal human beings would find it useful?[/quote]You'd have to admit having only 8 pages for the entire internet...

[quote user="ActionMan"]Someone needs to send him a link to the wikipedia page for enterprise software...[/quote] No need. Enterprise software is just software which uses XML in every single conceivable place, right?

When I saw this Side Bar Thread I knew I had to reply in a new post. In an old company I worked for, I found a nice pice of code... repeated on every part of the application. "The Coder", who obviously didn't knew about Sessions in Web Applications, faced the problem of a "conversational" dialog in the...

Not having a firewall currently (there, your free TRWTF) I decided to grab ZoneAlarm. It served me decently in the past, I guessed it could do no harm. I go to their website. I see the enterprisey flash on main page. Good sign. +0.5 WTF I click "Download and buy ". Yay. I click "Free 15 day trial". Suure...