I enjoyed this article this morning. I observe and play the chicken game constantly. I always called it the "Is it done yet game". As the recession worsens we are afraid to say "that enhancement to the web site will say 2 weeks to code and a two weeks to test/fix". Instead we are told do it all in 40 hours knowing there is no stinkin way that is gonna happen. If you tell the project manager is going to take longer because of testing and integration you are told. "That is not part of the time estimate.'...
I came into the office on January 2, 2009 and found out one of my applications was not finding files that have names based on the day of year and month of year. Here is the problem, my code was looking for a file called 'thepreciousfile200911.txt" instead of "thepreciousfile200901001. This worked 12/28/2008 but when the day of year changed to a single digit on the new year I could no longer check for file existence because the string I was using for the file name was now wrong. When I retrieved the...