https://clevershark.com Bits and rants from Tony Emond Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:00:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 127613282 https://clevershark.com/2009/07/the-vagaries-of-it-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-vagaries-of-it-work https://clevershark.com/2009/07/the-vagaries-of-it-work/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:00:54 +0000 http://clevershark.com/?p=1922 Continue reading The vagaries of IT work]]> Up until today I was pretty sure that I would never hate an IT product as much as I hate IBM WebSphere, but I think we have a new winner: SAP Netweaver v7. Just installing the damn thing is like trying to thread a needle while someone is stabbing you repeatedly in the face, and every time you look at him for guidance he says “nuh-huh, no hints!” Oh, and it can *only* use a version of Java that Sun has already announced is EOL’d. Literally your JVM must be between 1.4.2_08 and 1.5.0, exclusive. Why is “bloody impossible to get going” become a positive attribute for computer systems in the past few years?.. When has that become a good thing?

]]> https://clevershark.com/2009/07/the-vagaries-of-it-work/feed/ 0 1922