maintenance on S Anand

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:01:21 +0000

Is your code built to last? Mohammed Niyas P shares a developer war story.

His shortcut worked. It delivered working code. But 5 years later, when it failed, he didn’t expect he’d still be around to clean it up.

https://gramener.com/developerwarstories/this-tech-debt-made-me-humble

Found this tale on technical debt interesting? Gramener is #hiring #developers for a technical lead role. See https://gramener.com/job/?id=90520

Nikhil Kabbin – your story’s up next 😉

Hard disk noises

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:00:00 +0000

My hard drive is experiencing some strange noises but I am unsure if the drive is failing. How can I determine if the noises are due to a failing hard drive? By listening to hard disk noises – available as mp3s.

Hotel lift

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:00:00 +0000

We were staying at the Croydon Park Hotel, on the second floor. There were two elevators, and one of them was down for maintenance. I was walking into the other elevator as the maintenance man stepped in as well. He started pressing the elevator buttons: one, two…

“Oh, sorry sir. I was doing some maintenance on the other lift. I didn’t want this lift to come down for some time. You go right ahead.”

He stepped out, with the first and second floors lit up. I thought I’d help him a bit. Pressed 3, 4, 5, … every button there was in the lift

I got out at the second floor. A tall, well-dressed man got in to the elevator. Turned around. Looked at me.

“Is this going down?”

Before I could answer, the doors shut.

Hope he enjoyed the view of every floor in the hotel.