Story: Bob Builds a Matchmaking Site

Dating is tough today. Who has the time when there’s always another disk to defrag? Bob, who wants a piece of the dot-com action (what’s left of it, anyway), believes that creating a geek-specific dating site is his ticket out of the Dilbertian job he has now.

The problem is, Bob’s been a software manager for so long that he’s, um, a little out of touch with contemporary software engineering practices. But he knows some buzzwords and some Java and he’s read a little about servlets, so he makes a quick design and starts to code...

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