Journeyman Programmer

If you’ve ever had to work on a legacy application with a HUGE code base, you might get faced with this situation:
Manager: “Hey journeyman can you fix this address on this page so that it knows to take a system configuration?”
Journeyman:  “Sure, give me a second for an estimate.”
You find the code:
public class AddressService [...]

I read articles on Tech Republic from time to time. They’re . . . . OK. But I don’t remember signing up for this kind of email notification. You’d think a self proclaimed tech site would show a little more ethical behavior. Just goes to show you, their opinions are motivated. [...]

I had to write an Oracle script template for work to kind of create a guideline for our developers since we are getting inputs from ourselves, DBA standards, and business requirements from our BA’s and customers.
Anyway, one thing they wanted was batch commits . . . so I wrote this quick little piece:
It creates a [...]

I was creating a setup of PortableApps on my XP machine with some of the great stuff you can port around in that framework: Open Office, VLC etc. without installing them into the OS. I didn’t have a USB drive with me, and thought hey, maybe I can just make a virtual drive from [...]