[work] not what I expected

[cellio]

Time to code a work-around for a bug so a customer can give a better demo tomorrow and hopefully win a bid and give us money: one hour.

Time to deal with our own licensing system so we can just give them the one JAR file they need without making them re-install the product: three hours or so. (Or so I understand; I was not the one doing it.)

Something is not right here.

Comments

[mrpeck.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Licensing is designed to be really tricky to break so that even the mildly curious end user (or even employee) won't be able to do it easily. Those who know the encryption are kept few and far between. For demos, though, you can just toss in a brutal hack. Who cares if the underlying database becomes corrupt since it will be trashed after the demo?

(yeah, I spent way too much of my life hacking things for demos)