No! No! No!

[bunn]

If you are running a database with an API that other people have to connect to and pull data out of using scripts they had to write, you don't just RANDOMLY CHANGE THE FIELD STRUCTURE AND CAPITALISATION TO MAKE IT PRETTIER!

Without any notice, or information, other than just updating your own documentation, so that bunn, staring blankly at code she wrote months ago, has to go and look at the documentation, and stare as if seeking enlightenment at the data coming out of the database, to finally figure out that, oh yes, all these fields that were named like this, are now named like that!

RAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

I am reduced to mindless tearing at my hair. It is half past midnight here. I've been trying to figure out WTF is going on since last week.

I feel somehow obscurely that if I were somehow... better at things... this sort of thing would not happen, but I'm almost sure that's a delusion. Almost.