Sleepless Java
Hmm… I find myself debugging Java web services clients today. Well, why not? But I should have gotten more sleep.
C# webservices, Java clients and lots of small Python scripts for my own testing - it’s a nice setup. And I can run it all from my old Thinkpad.
My fellow debugger didn’t have it so nice: he was inside corporate firewalls, up to his ears in tangled-up app servers. Don’t even tell me how fast your testing setup is! he said with mock despair.
It took me five seconds to test a live server from the outside - it took him twenty minutes. So we worked by phone. I tested things for him from outside, as he slowly got the production stuff inside sorted out.