Winnie Tong - Web dev polyglotte: Sad, funny and true web dev story

Winnie is a software engineer at a Silicon Valley start-up. She is a polyglot in human and computer languages. She has been an early adopter of the Microsoft .NET Framework, developing .NET web and Windows applications for the financial sector since its inception as a beta release in 2001. Winnie has previously bumbled about as a Java developer, trying to making Java Server Faces work for her ex-employer's next generation product. The weapon of her current employer's choice is PHP. "Web Dev Polyglotte" attempts to document the trials and tribulations that Winnie encounters from day to day. Winnie does not consider herself to be a zealot for any particular programming language or development platform. In an attempt to stay as platform-agnostic as possible, she also dabbles in Perl and Python in her spare time. Winnie holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

I asked a MySpace developer why a few particular links on their site were javascript onclick events applied to a span tag, rather than anchor tags.

He said it was because the product specifications required those links not to be underlined.

*headdesk*

This explains a lot.

Posted by Winona on February 14, 2008 1:39 PM | Permalink

NOOOOO. You're yanking our chain. Really?