What the Fun Holiday Activity: The Gift of the Consultant and The Holiday Push

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As we roll into the last few days before Christmas, it’s time to share what our readers sent in for our “What the Fun Holiday” contest. It was a blast going through the submissions to see what our holiday experiences looked like.

Before we dig in to our contest winners, our first honorable mention is to David N, who shared with us “The Worm Before Christmas“, a classic from 1988 that was new to us.

Our first runner up story comes from Mike. This is an Easter Tale, complete with a death, a resurrection, and thirty pieces of silver (or whatever amount you give highly paid consultants).

We had a workflow engine that severely needed to be rewritten. We brought in an outside consultant to rewrite it. For months, we heard how crappy the original code was and he didn’t understand how it could even work. Every week, we

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