Data Circle

“You spend 50% of your time hacking scripts to get around bugs in other people’s poorly documented and unmaintained code, and the other 50% cursing the users of your system.”

– Paul, today, after spending several days trying to get JTidy to work, only to realise that the documentation is out of date and he had to checkout the latest SVN, compile the classes manually (no build scripts provided), create a jar file and copy this over the existing one before everything would work.