Funny or not, Home Depot should be lauded for their website, ecommerce, and inventory tracking. Lowe's is a complete joke in comparison.
And it's not just public facing stuff. Home Depot tells you exactly where something is. Lowes just tells you an amount that may or may not be right. Three times this year I've went in to buy something with '15 in stock', and apparently that's all employees see also. They all briefly look around, then say I don't know check the endcaps.
FWIW I've had similar frustrating experiences in both companies' stores. Could just be a matter of specific locations simply being run better than others.
They may be able to track their inventory, but they've also leaked 3 of my credit cards over the years, so it's not like they have reached the level of competency, they just know how many widgets they have.
Do you happen to know for sure that Home Depot was the actor that allowed the leak to occur, or a third party vendor (like their payments processor)?
I'm not insinuating that they aren't responsible either way. On the contrary - their internal stuff seems really good, so if it's a vendor issue, maybe the world needs a "Home Depot Payments".
We should cheer on teams in big enterprise that are pushing to upgrade their tech stacks. I worked at a security company that pulled in security scanner data from enterprise companies and as you can guess the results are not great. Any upgrade is a positive step forward. Don't hate on them for being behind the curve. Things are different at that level of business.
Mildly humorous perhaps, but default website on some random subdomain is an entirely commonplace occurrence.. you’ll find tens of thousands of these— yes even at huge corps/enterprises..
I've had stuff like this crawled in the past because it was linked from internal (but not private) documentation, which in turn was indexed because of a link that found its way into a public page.
The Chat, Multiplayer Snake, and Multiplayer Drawing board examples for Tomcat WebSocket API are working. Is there someone out there who wants to play?
Incredibly funny. I actually think Home Depot, surprisingly, has increasingly good tech though.
I saw they paid for a booth at the Gophercon conference in San Diego a few years back, and their website + mobile app + online shipping setup is actually pretty great and reasonably priced. I didn't expect it to be. I use them for a lot of small+large tool/supply orders for gardening, woodworking, etc. now.
Dunno how that relates to stock value, but I've certainly thought twice that maybe I should buy some Home Depot stock because of this..
I heard that they’ve recently been transitioning from every store having its own local SQL Server database for inventory management to having a single database at HQ that all the stores use. Apparently it was quite arduous trying to sync all those store databases with a central one.
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard of Tomcat. Seems to have drastically fallen out of favor, much like Java itself for web hosting, but I’m guessing various bigcos still use it.
If you think this isn't scary enough, that thing most likely has access to a privileged network segment that the rest of the mobile network equipment is on and the software on those is no better.
I wonder if Home Depot still rejects plus symbols in email addresses. Someone coded their email fields to only accept A-Z, 0-9, and a limited set of punctuation (. _ - @)
And it's not just public facing stuff. Home Depot tells you exactly where something is. Lowes just tells you an amount that may or may not be right. Three times this year I've went in to buy something with '15 in stock', and apparently that's all employees see also. They all briefly look around, then say I don't know check the endcaps.