Top 10 XML Specifications Rejected by the W3C

Got this in an email. for those of you who work in XML, its funny.

10. WS-IrishSpring: for scented, more pleasing SOAP packets

9. WS-UPS: for sending SOAP packets in real envelopes

8. WS-USPS: for sending SOAP packets that dont need to get there

7. WS-PrisonShower: for picking up the dropped SOAP packets

6. X-Wife: protocol for monetary transfer

5. WS-Insecurity: dating protocol for web services programmers

4. WS-Monopoly: protocol used to keep antitrust penalties to manageable levels

3. NICKLE: for encoding smaller binary attachments

2. SFFCI: Syndication Format for Complete Idiots

1. WS-XXX: bringing a business model to XML.

Pay Phones and Pointers

I recently read an interesting little article on the upcoming college class of 2010. It expounded on how, among other items, this upcoming generation of college grads never really knew what it was like to search for a pay phone. Imagine that! I did and it made me feel old, so I shifted my thought to a tangent. Imagine the latest generation of developers, working in managed code environments who don't worry about pointers, malloc or deal with heap corruptions.

Managed code has done a lot to alleviate the pains of development. We produce code faster (not faster code) and without the worries because the managed code runtime does it all for us, right????

Well, we can always add more memory......

Other peoples code can be fun too!!

A while back, a colleague got me hooked on this site. The entire purpose of this site is for fellow programmers to share some of the worst code they have found. Most of the code is "legacy code" left by previous programmers. If you have ever run across code and said "WTF!?!?!" then it deserves to be on this site.

The human side of development

People often think of programmers as geeks or lifeless people who do little more that obsess over computers. Well, that's not entirely true right? right! We are actually an intellectually fun crowd. My personnel favorite proof of this is our habit of naming projects and object after obscure topics. This is a list of some of my favorite naming conventions.

1. The Manhattan Project
2. Porn stars
3. The moons of Saturn
4. The Muppets
5. Islands in the Pacific you wish you could visit
6. Greek gods
7. Sesame Street characters (classic, not new)

Some I've used, some are on the plate... either way I think most people should be so lucky to be able to get in touch with their inner child and actually have fun with work rather than become the "mature" drone they inevitably become..a slave to social expectations.