Working on this is a real headache to me...
This will be a very geeky post, but just check out that code i found in the .jsp of one of the applications i’m currently working on.
It’s not an auto-generated jsp, it is like this in production…
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Not being any racist or sectary or saying that we French people code better… but this piece of code comes from the Indian consultancy that was before in charge of this application, for more than 3 years. I always heard that working with Indians (which is common in IT) was usually risky and the source of many problems… but never actually experienced it.
In the 12+ applications i am now in charge of, i regularly find similar golden pieces of code… Plus, no refactoring was ever done for the last 3 years (but, i will not forget to mention that my Indian colleague himself told me he didn’t have time anyway for refactoring anyway, the tasks he already had were too much time-consuming to give time for refactoring…).
So you can imagine the big mess it is, and why i’m so unhappy about what i’m doing right now.
But my project manager told me some Flex application would come sooner or later in our perimeter…
Nico.
PS: Sorry for the layout (the white pic and the bluie background for the piece of code)… Im still not mastering the CSS of this theme and this is the first time im adding a piece of code…
Just got a new idea!
Hello there,
As you may have noticed if you are following me on facebook and/or twitter, i have just had a new awesome idea… 
It is about developing a new Web application, available to the public… and thats all for the moment.
Sorry, i won’t give more details now, because i might eventually never develop it – after all i came to Madrid to enjoy bars, tapas and night life; not to stay home geeking. And the other reason is that i don’t want to be stolen the idea.
Ok don’t get crazy, i won’t create any buzz or something, but well, who knows… And i will definitely not make money out of it; but for me thats a way to do some IT development, and create something… at my current job, i’m not really challenged, so…
I will seriously start thinking about it when i get Internet at home… it will be easier to look up for more informations, and softwares and stuff to start developing. That will be in PHP, for sure.
So stay tuned.
Nicolas.
PS: i’m awesome.
