Two Coding Horrors I overheard today...
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Boss Type: ... Hmmm, do you think this will be a problem? VB6'er*: Well, the thing is there's no way to get the ID of the rows you've just updated in SQL Server. [Much later] VB6'er: The input data must have been invalid - and then the import failed part way through updating twenty odd tables, but I don't know where. This is going to take me hours to sort out! Boss Type: Well we need this sorted asap! I don't care if you have to work 'til midnight! Cleaning Lady** [passing by, busy hoovering]: Sounds to me like you should have used a transaction... [Exeunt stage left martin_hughes, chortling] * I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate. ** Added under poetic licence for comedy reasons.
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Boss Type: ... Hmmm, do you think this will be a problem? VB6'er*: Well, the thing is there's no way to get the ID of the rows you've just updated in SQL Server. [Much later] VB6'er: The input data must have been invalid - and then the import failed part way through updating twenty odd tables, but I don't know where. This is going to take me hours to sort out! Boss Type: Well we need this sorted asap! I don't care if you have to work 'til midnight! Cleaning Lady** [passing by, busy hoovering]: Sounds to me like you should have used a transaction... [Exeunt stage left martin_hughes, chortling] * I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate. ** Added under poetic licence for comedy reasons.
martin_hughes wrote:
* I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate.
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
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martin_hughes wrote:
* I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate.
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
Do you remember Gonks?
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martin_hughes wrote:
* I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate.
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
That would be a South Asian analogue to Junior Samples[^], mayhap? "Friends don't let friends write VB6" -- Tech Sage "Friends don't let friends manage VB6 projects" -- Experienced Manager Sage
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Boss Type: ... Hmmm, do you think this will be a problem? VB6'er*: Well, the thing is there's no way to get the ID of the rows you've just updated in SQL Server. [Much later] VB6'er: The input data must have been invalid - and then the import failed part way through updating twenty odd tables, but I don't know where. This is going to take me hours to sort out! Boss Type: Well we need this sorted asap! I don't care if you have to work 'til midnight! Cleaning Lady** [passing by, busy hoovering]: Sounds to me like you should have used a transaction... [Exeunt stage left martin_hughes, chortling] * I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate. ** Added under poetic licence for comedy reasons.
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martin_hughes wrote:
* I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate.
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
MidwestLimey wrote:
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
Yesterday it was cheanos and a rugby shirt, but today I'm wearing a rather fetching olive (coloured) suit. :rolleyes:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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martin_hughes wrote:
* I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate.
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
My mirror says: Khaki shorts (with blindingly white legs sticking out of them), black T-shirt, a mostly gray absence of a haircut and glasses that were in fashion ten years ago or so... Admittedly, I do a lot of C# these days and I come from a C background, but I do a lot of maintenance on my old VB6 code and even more VBScript. Not that I want to, but you know, there are these little creatures called customers that you sometimes have to take into account... Later,
-- Peter
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martin_hughes wrote:
* I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate.
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
MidwestLimey wrote:
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
Normal... until the sun goes down... The VB'ers then sprout large fangs, and multiple "insect like" legs. They then roam the streets looking for innocent software to devour.... ATM's, Petrol pumps, desktop PC's... nothing is safe... :)
Mark Brock Click here to view my blog
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MidwestLimey wrote:
I'm curious, what does a VB6er look like these days?
Normal... until the sun goes down... The VB'ers then sprout large fangs, and multiple "insect like" legs. They then roam the streets looking for innocent software to devour.... ATM's, Petrol pumps, desktop PC's... nothing is safe... :)
Mark Brock Click here to view my blog
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AEternal wrote:
Is nowhere safe!?
I normaly hide in element 0 of an array. VB6er tend not to look there... ;P
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" -
Boss Type: ... Hmmm, do you think this will be a problem? VB6'er*: Well, the thing is there's no way to get the ID of the rows you've just updated in SQL Server. [Much later] VB6'er: The input data must have been invalid - and then the import failed part way through updating twenty odd tables, but I don't know where. This is going to take me hours to sort out! Boss Type: Well we need this sorted asap! I don't care if you have to work 'til midnight! Cleaning Lady** [passing by, busy hoovering]: Sounds to me like you should have used a transaction... [Exeunt stage left martin_hughes, chortling] * I assume he is, he looks like one, at any rate. ** Added under poetic licence for comedy reasons.