My Worst Code Was My Best Code
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Liam recounts specific past projects where pragmatic, hacky solutions—often made under constraints—worked surprisingly well. Examples include Windows 3.1 macros to turn CorelDRAW into a weather-map tool, a VB6 “pause and continue” system used during a UK general election broadcast at Sky News, an Access-MDB based database cache, an HTML DOM–abused ticketing system, and using the file system as a messaging queue to ingest music back catalogues for EMI, WMG and Sony.
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