My sides - they split!
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Just got off the blower to a colleague who is having a very bad day :) He got a call from a customer whose database seems to have disappeared; now my colleague isn't a technical guy, but I talked him through SQL Server Management Studio. Suprisingly, my collegaue confirmed that the database was present, as was it's entire structure - only all the tables were empty of data. I asked him the background to the call - as this isn't a system I know much about or deal with. Apparently this database back ends a VB6 application, and one of the features of this 'application' is that it allows users to import data from 'sattelite' Access databases. Like a lead balloon the penny dropped and I remembered why i stopped having anything to do with the system 2 - 2 1/2 years ago. I asked, "have you got a copy of the last Access database imported"? "Yeah sure," he said as I could feel the laughter rising. I opened Access, and sure enough the imported database was also completely empty ;) I advised to restore last night's backup, while I had a word with our VB *guru*. The conversation went a bit like this: Me: Remember 2 1/2 years ago I told you your import routine was cretinous? That blindly dropping tables and then recreating them from an unknown, untrusted source is possibly the worst bit of design I have ever encountered? That you are a complete Charlie? Him: Oh, yeah! Me: Well why didn't you fix it!!!!!! Him: Err... well... you see... I still thought it was the best way of doing it! BWHAHAHHAHAHHAHABBAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA BWHWHWHWHWWHHWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA! VB6 Chumps - they should all have their computers taken away from them and be given Etch-a-Sketchs instead!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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Just got off the blower to a colleague who is having a very bad day :) He got a call from a customer whose database seems to have disappeared; now my colleague isn't a technical guy, but I talked him through SQL Server Management Studio. Suprisingly, my collegaue confirmed that the database was present, as was it's entire structure - only all the tables were empty of data. I asked him the background to the call - as this isn't a system I know much about or deal with. Apparently this database back ends a VB6 application, and one of the features of this 'application' is that it allows users to import data from 'sattelite' Access databases. Like a lead balloon the penny dropped and I remembered why i stopped having anything to do with the system 2 - 2 1/2 years ago. I asked, "have you got a copy of the last Access database imported"? "Yeah sure," he said as I could feel the laughter rising. I opened Access, and sure enough the imported database was also completely empty ;) I advised to restore last night's backup, while I had a word with our VB *guru*. The conversation went a bit like this: Me: Remember 2 1/2 years ago I told you your import routine was cretinous? That blindly dropping tables and then recreating them from an unknown, untrusted source is possibly the worst bit of design I have ever encountered? That you are a complete Charlie? Him: Oh, yeah! Me: Well why didn't you fix it!!!!!! Him: Err... well... you see... I still thought it was the best way of doing it! BWHAHAHHAHAHHAHABBAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA BWHWHWHWHWWHHWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA! VB6 Chumps - they should all have their computers taken away from them and be given Etch-a-Sketchs instead!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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Just got off the blower to a colleague who is having a very bad day :) He got a call from a customer whose database seems to have disappeared; now my colleague isn't a technical guy, but I talked him through SQL Server Management Studio. Suprisingly, my collegaue confirmed that the database was present, as was it's entire structure - only all the tables were empty of data. I asked him the background to the call - as this isn't a system I know much about or deal with. Apparently this database back ends a VB6 application, and one of the features of this 'application' is that it allows users to import data from 'sattelite' Access databases. Like a lead balloon the penny dropped and I remembered why i stopped having anything to do with the system 2 - 2 1/2 years ago. I asked, "have you got a copy of the last Access database imported"? "Yeah sure," he said as I could feel the laughter rising. I opened Access, and sure enough the imported database was also completely empty ;) I advised to restore last night's backup, while I had a word with our VB *guru*. The conversation went a bit like this: Me: Remember 2 1/2 years ago I told you your import routine was cretinous? That blindly dropping tables and then recreating them from an unknown, untrusted source is possibly the worst bit of design I have ever encountered? That you are a complete Charlie? Him: Oh, yeah! Me: Well why didn't you fix it!!!!!! Him: Err... well... you see... I still thought it was the best way of doing it! BWHAHAHHAHAHHAHABBAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA BWHWHWHWHWWHHWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA! VB6 Chumps - they should all have their computers taken away from them and be given Etch-a-Sketchs instead!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
There you go. Classic schoolboy error there. VB Guru (isn't that an Oxymoron - or at lease a moronic Ox). Expecting them to think. Tie the two sentences together and you've got the makings of a Bruce Willis movie.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Just got off the blower to a colleague who is having a very bad day :) He got a call from a customer whose database seems to have disappeared; now my colleague isn't a technical guy, but I talked him through SQL Server Management Studio. Suprisingly, my collegaue confirmed that the database was present, as was it's entire structure - only all the tables were empty of data. I asked him the background to the call - as this isn't a system I know much about or deal with. Apparently this database back ends a VB6 application, and one of the features of this 'application' is that it allows users to import data from 'sattelite' Access databases. Like a lead balloon the penny dropped and I remembered why i stopped having anything to do with the system 2 - 2 1/2 years ago. I asked, "have you got a copy of the last Access database imported"? "Yeah sure," he said as I could feel the laughter rising. I opened Access, and sure enough the imported database was also completely empty ;) I advised to restore last night's backup, while I had a word with our VB *guru*. The conversation went a bit like this: Me: Remember 2 1/2 years ago I told you your import routine was cretinous? That blindly dropping tables and then recreating them from an unknown, untrusted source is possibly the worst bit of design I have ever encountered? That you are a complete Charlie? Him: Oh, yeah! Me: Well why didn't you fix it!!!!!! Him: Err... well... you see... I still thought it was the best way of doing it! BWHAHAHHAHAHHAHABBAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA BWHWHWHWHWWHHWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA! VB6 Chumps - they should all have their computers taken away from them and be given Etch-a-Sketchs instead!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
martin_hughes wrote:
Just got off the blower to a colleague who is having a very bad day :)
I'm glad I'm not one of your colleagues whose suffering inspires much mirth in you.
My head asplode!
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Just got off the blower to a colleague who is having a very bad day :) He got a call from a customer whose database seems to have disappeared; now my colleague isn't a technical guy, but I talked him through SQL Server Management Studio. Suprisingly, my collegaue confirmed that the database was present, as was it's entire structure - only all the tables were empty of data. I asked him the background to the call - as this isn't a system I know much about or deal with. Apparently this database back ends a VB6 application, and one of the features of this 'application' is that it allows users to import data from 'sattelite' Access databases. Like a lead balloon the penny dropped and I remembered why i stopped having anything to do with the system 2 - 2 1/2 years ago. I asked, "have you got a copy of the last Access database imported"? "Yeah sure," he said as I could feel the laughter rising. I opened Access, and sure enough the imported database was also completely empty ;) I advised to restore last night's backup, while I had a word with our VB *guru*. The conversation went a bit like this: Me: Remember 2 1/2 years ago I told you your import routine was cretinous? That blindly dropping tables and then recreating them from an unknown, untrusted source is possibly the worst bit of design I have ever encountered? That you are a complete Charlie? Him: Oh, yeah! Me: Well why didn't you fix it!!!!!! Him: Err... well... you see... I still thought it was the best way of doing it! BWHAHAHHAHAHHAHABBAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA BWHWHWHWHWWHHWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA! VB6 Chumps - they should all have their computers taken away from them and be given Etch-a-Sketchs instead!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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Just got off the blower to a colleague who is having a very bad day :) He got a call from a customer whose database seems to have disappeared; now my colleague isn't a technical guy, but I talked him through SQL Server Management Studio. Suprisingly, my collegaue confirmed that the database was present, as was it's entire structure - only all the tables were empty of data. I asked him the background to the call - as this isn't a system I know much about or deal with. Apparently this database back ends a VB6 application, and one of the features of this 'application' is that it allows users to import data from 'sattelite' Access databases. Like a lead balloon the penny dropped and I remembered why i stopped having anything to do with the system 2 - 2 1/2 years ago. I asked, "have you got a copy of the last Access database imported"? "Yeah sure," he said as I could feel the laughter rising. I opened Access, and sure enough the imported database was also completely empty ;) I advised to restore last night's backup, while I had a word with our VB *guru*. The conversation went a bit like this: Me: Remember 2 1/2 years ago I told you your import routine was cretinous? That blindly dropping tables and then recreating them from an unknown, untrusted source is possibly the worst bit of design I have ever encountered? That you are a complete Charlie? Him: Oh, yeah! Me: Well why didn't you fix it!!!!!! Him: Err... well... you see... I still thought it was the best way of doing it! BWHAHAHHAHAHHAHABBAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA BWHWHWHWHWWHHWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA! VB6 Chumps - they should all have their computers taken away from them and be given Etch-a-Sketchs instead!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
But couldn't this have happened with any programming language, not just VB?
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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But couldn't this have happened with any programming language, not just VB?
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
Yes, quite true, but it has been my experience of C++/Java/C# guys who claim to 10-15 years working with their chosen languages (as does our resident VB "Guru", apparently) that they approach software with a bit more thought :-)
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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Yes, quite true, but it has been my experience of C++/Java/C# guys who claim to 10-15 years working with their chosen languages (as does our resident VB "Guru", apparently) that they approach software with a bit more thought :-)
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
I get your point, but...
martin_hughes wrote:
C++/Java/C# guys who claim to 10-15 years working with their chosen languages
... would make me a bit hesitant about the trustworthiness of that C# guy. :cool:
-- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel
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I get your point, but...
martin_hughes wrote:
C++/Java/C# guys who claim to 10-15 years working with their chosen languages
... would make me a bit hesitant about the trustworthiness of that C# guy. :cool:
-- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel
Good catch - or the Java guy claiming 15 years :)
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