Lesson learned: Never let the outside world see your First Big Project Ever. This is what Fred Brooks would have called the First System. Everybody builds th

Lesson learned: Never let the outside world see your First Big Project Ever. This is what Fred Brooks would have called the First System. Everybody builds this thing at the beginning of their career, and it's always this embarrassing. Mine, in 1996, took this a step further and actually prepared SQL statements in javascript before submitting them to the server to run. Yours probably did something equally bad. It's the rule of the First System. It's where we learn all the lessons we need so that we can do things right the Third time (I'll spare the Second System description for the time being...) The key though is to make sure that nobody ever sees that code. Hopefully it will be locked away in some intranet vacation-time-planning app that nobody will ever dig into. That way you can look back at it in shame, but few others will ever know about it. So here we have a team of people who have clearly never built anything at all, trying to learn on the job while being scrutinized by the entire world and actually submitting their code for public review. God help them.