Friday, October 06, 2006

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Since we already have nerd porn on the page, I thought it might be instructive to see what nerd horror might look like. Look no further than:
http://thedailywtf.com/
...for some truly mind-bending examples of the multifarious ways in which innocent (and not so innocent) information processing systems can be abused.

Particularly amusing are atrocities like the customer-friendly system and the strangely familiar client management module.

There's a good description of VB there too:
VB, much like generic beer and America's Funniest Home Videos is an enabling technology for stupid people. It allows stupid people to do stupid things on scale that they couldn't accomplish on their own. While using VB does not make you a dumb programmer, being a dumb programmer does make VB your weapon of choice. That is unless you really don't know what the fuck you are doing. Then it's PHP all the way.