CodeSOD: Encapsulation in the Hot Seat

Santosh K. had seen all the emails about the upcoming code audit.   He thought Oh, I’m safe, all my code has been in Production and working fine, surely someone would have complained! But, alas, here he was – in the main conference room having to explain himself...

The Sysadmin’s PC

from The Daily WTF by Remy Porter “Hey, can you give me a hand? This computer I built won’t boot.” Alexander sighed, and went to see what Nicholas had done now. Only a few weeks before, around the start of the year 2001, Alexander was full of hope and optimism for the...