{"id":246,"date":"2013-12-01T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=246"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:25:18","slug":"20131130if-it-works-why-break-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"If it works, why break it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it is a trait, buried in our genome that we become (or indeed, are) short attention span animals. Why bother about what has not eaten us, when the next sabre-tooth is padding over the ridge.<br \/>Have you ever had the problem of &#8220;upgrades&#8221; breaking the app?  I have. <br \/>The latest miscreant is the Odeon app. You can do all kinds of things still with this window into the Odeon Empire (pun intended) except buy tickets. A sort of a doh! moment. Perhaps, the engineers were too busy adding tracking code or skeuomorphic features to notice the hunting mate of the sabre-tooth circling around and coming from their &#8220;6&#8221;.<br \/>Anyway, the app is no more, it has become a Norwegian Blue (that has not revived unlike the Pythons).<br \/>Perhaps too much cola has been gulped?<br \/>The only purpose of this app is missing \u2014 a bit like the Cheese Shop from Monty Python.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: &#8217;twas not the app that was broked, but the back shop server. Now fixed.<br \/>Now why did it not report an error like the website, rather than just falling over?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it is a trait, buried in our genome that we become (or indeed, are) short attention span animals. Why bother about what has not eaten us, when the next sabre-tooth is padding over the ridge.Have you ever had the problem of &#8220;upgrades&#8221; breaking the app? I have. The latest miscreant is the Odeon app. You can do all kinds of things still with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}