The problem with spending any time away from work is that things get decided upon that are really bad news for the person who was away. Today I got to find out that our mechanism for talking to the servers has been completely changed from SOAP to HTTP GET/POSTing JSON. My platform has no built-in JSON parsing and I'm not allowed to buy 3rd-party or use Open Source. As far as I can tell from looking at the otherwise unchanged project plan, I have five minutes of tomorrow's lunchtime in which to write a full-blown JSON parser.
Okay, it's not that hard, but five minutes? I wanted to keep that time clear for having a wee or something.
