I’m David Knott. I’ve been working in enterprise technology for over forty years and I’m still learning. This blog is based on mistakes, failures, lessons and some things I find interesting:
Haunted legacy: a Halloween code story
It was 17:55 on the 31st October. Five minutes before the programmer’s shift ended and the night shift took over. The time when you hope that no new bugs will be reported and no new tickets will be raised.
Ping!
The ticketing system sounded an alert, and the notification bubble popped back into existence, a bright little ‘1’ in the middle of its red circle.