{"id":56,"date":"2003-10-15T23:47:02","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/15\/twees\/"},"modified":"2003-10-15T23:47:02","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T22:47:02","slug":"twees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/15\/twees\/","title":{"rendered":"Twees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, people can make <i>climbing trees<\/i> into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtribe.com\/product_cat.html\">commercial opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a classic story software engineering story &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/anthonybailey\/8918.html#cutid1\">Anthony<\/a> does the intro and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelle.boo-lah.com\/dave\/blog\/index.php?view=7\">DaveM<\/a> delivers the punchline.  Next time you&#8217;re chasing down a bug which &#8220;can&#8217;t possibly be happening&#8221; bear this one in mind.  Of course, every <i>other<\/i> time it&#8217;ll be a bug in the code.  But this once, the code was fine.  Crazy stuff!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/labs\/spl\/projects\/jquery\/\">JQuery<\/a> is a pretty nice bit of software.  It allows you to query your java codebase using prolog-like questions, and it integrates into Eclipse to provide dynamic views across your code base.<\/p>\n<p>I remain undecided whether a bad language with good tools is preferable to a good language with bad tools.  People who get paid to code in Smalltalk\/Lisp can sit back and be smug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, people can make climbing trees into a commercial opportunity. Here&#8217;s a classic story software engineering story &#8211; Anthony does the intro and DaveM delivers the punchline. Next time you&#8217;re chasing down a bug which &#8220;can&#8217;t possibly be happening&#8221; bear this one in mind. Of course, every other time it&#8217;ll be a bug in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}