In the summer of 2009 I revisited my 2004 summer apprenticeship at Object Mentor. What follows is the original 2004 post and then some 2009 commentary.

So I was doing one last re-install of Word Press, just to make sure I understood everything that could go wrong – But apparently there was one more thing. I just couldn’t sign in from my laptop when I pointed it’s browser at the Linux box. I know I had the right login and password because it worked on the other machine. After spending too much time messing around in the Linux terminal, I went back to my laptop, deleted the cookies associated with that website, and everything was fine.

Cookies are a problem.

The chess program is proving to be an interesting problem. Everything wants to know about everything else. Must… Manage… Dependencies…

“Everything wants to know about everything else” I fight this battle every day. And I continue to fight cookies and other browser state tricks. State is the enemy.