Yesterday one of the developers that I work with lost all his work that he has done for the past two months! Apparently what happened was that the poor bagger did not commit anything to CVS for the past two months. So yesterday for some mysterious reason he has overridden his local changes with the outdated copy of the source code from CVS and tried to recompile everything. I don’t know why he did it.

I think he was almost crying telling me about the amount of work that was lost. During the conversation, it became obvious to me that for his luck, he had somewhere all the classes JARed as a backup (from before he has overridden the changes).

When I heard it, I said “Dude… you can decompile the classes! You can get the source code back” …

Ohhh… the look on his face after I said it – priceless …