Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective

[samvara]

Hilarious and cool

Comments

[unjapanologist]

That was awesome :D

[samvara]

Yes!

The web developer's perspective...

[flamebyrd]

One of my first tasks at my current job was to transfer the wedding booking form to a new system, and I noticed it wanted the "wife" and "husband" names, so I endeavoured to make them gender-neutral, but could not find an elegant way to name the fields! It was terribly frustrating. (I think I settled on Party A and Party B. I should check what the Canadian marriage application asks for, actually...)

Re: The web developer's perspective...

[samvara]

You've got me there, the first word that sprang to mind was 'participant' which is kind of horrible and 'partner' is heavily laden with meaning(s)...