[Ghoulish Delight]

Dear Irvine Spectrum,

I sincerely hope you got your money back for the installation of the parking space counting system in your new parking structures. This weekend, I saw a prime example of sloppy coding, one that strongly hints at a sloppy job overall. It should embarass you, and the company that provided the technology, to have a bright red sign displaying the message, "There are LOT FULL spaces available on level 2."

I, myself, am not a programmer. To be honest, I rather dislike the exercies of programming. However, in the course of my job, I do a small amount of pseudo coding (namely batch and shell scripting). I write small scripts for my own use, the results of which are rarely if ever viewed by anyone other than myself. And yet, I always find the time to add the 3 or 4 lines of code that enure that messages such as, "Test Run 1 Times" or, "There are a total of NO FILES FOUND files in the directory" never appear. It's the most basic of edge case/error handling, and to see it in a professionally installed system for public consumption is shocking. I would like the name of the vendor from whom you purchased the above mentioned system, so that I may star as far away from their products and services as possibled.

Sincerely,
A DVT Engineer.