The art of becoming so conversant in the bugs of a commercial software platform that you are able to achieve desired functionality by exploiting said bugs. The defectomancer's weapon of choice is the Cludge. Her abilities are enhanced when operating in under-patched environments lacking official vendor support. She can easily be countered by employing the tactics of intelligent software acquisition and management. Despite these weaknesses the defectomancer has made enterprise domains her natural habitat.
Using her skills in defectomancy, Sally saved an invalid value to an inexplicably non-nullable date field so that it would display N/A instead of an arbitrary date when no date was to be entered in that field.
by Pidd December 19, 2013