I'm in hades
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After years of hearing rumors about this project-from-hell beast I think that I am there. I have been given the privilege of maintaining an ASP app that was written by a consultant some years ago. This is the stuff of nightmares... I pulled out 69 pages (!) of hard coded SQL queries. Mostly consisting of SELECT * and line after line of concatenating strings and constants. Funny thing is that most of the time he would SELECT * and then pull tow or three fields out of the result set. I am told the he refused to use stored procedures. There is one and only one .aspx page. The rest of the views are hard coded strings containing HTML spewed out by Response.Write's inside the various classes. Best of all, he locked them into using his proprietary DLL that he used sometimes to connect to the database and sometimes he used SQLClient. I guess the "good" news is that the app works and I only have to perform minor updates. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Lounge activities. Thank you.
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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After years of hearing rumors about this project-from-hell beast I think that I am there. I have been given the privilege of maintaining an ASP app that was written by a consultant some years ago. This is the stuff of nightmares... I pulled out 69 pages (!) of hard coded SQL queries. Mostly consisting of SELECT * and line after line of concatenating strings and constants. Funny thing is that most of the time he would SELECT * and then pull tow or three fields out of the result set. I am told the he refused to use stored procedures. There is one and only one .aspx page. The rest of the views are hard coded strings containing HTML spewed out by Response.Write's inside the various classes. Best of all, he locked them into using his proprietary DLL that he used sometimes to connect to the database and sometimes he used SQLClient. I guess the "good" news is that the app works and I only have to perform minor updates. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Lounge activities. Thank you.
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
You mean there's another way to build such sites?:confused: ;)
Will Rogers never met me.
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You mean there's another way to build such sites?:confused: ;)
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
You mean there's another way to build such sites
Well that the rumor that I heard... :)
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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After years of hearing rumors about this project-from-hell beast I think that I am there. I have been given the privilege of maintaining an ASP app that was written by a consultant some years ago. This is the stuff of nightmares... I pulled out 69 pages (!) of hard coded SQL queries. Mostly consisting of SELECT * and line after line of concatenating strings and constants. Funny thing is that most of the time he would SELECT * and then pull tow or three fields out of the result set. I am told the he refused to use stored procedures. There is one and only one .aspx page. The rest of the views are hard coded strings containing HTML spewed out by Response.Write's inside the various classes. Best of all, he locked them into using his proprietary DLL that he used sometimes to connect to the database and sometimes he used SQLClient. I guess the "good" news is that the app works and I only have to perform minor updates. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Lounge activities. Thank you.
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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After years of hearing rumors about this project-from-hell beast I think that I am there. I have been given the privilege of maintaining an ASP app that was written by a consultant some years ago. This is the stuff of nightmares... I pulled out 69 pages (!) of hard coded SQL queries. Mostly consisting of SELECT * and line after line of concatenating strings and constants. Funny thing is that most of the time he would SELECT * and then pull tow or three fields out of the result set. I am told the he refused to use stored procedures. There is one and only one .aspx page. The rest of the views are hard coded strings containing HTML spewed out by Response.Write's inside the various classes. Best of all, he locked them into using his proprietary DLL that he used sometimes to connect to the database and sometimes he used SQLClient. I guess the "good" news is that the app works and I only have to perform minor updates. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Lounge activities. Thank you.
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
Hah I know that guy, I made a comfortable living in the 90s following him around from one contract to the next fixing his disasters! One benefit is you don't have to do the BA work just reengineer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Hah I know that guy, I made a comfortable living in the 90s following him around from one contract to the next fixing his disasters! One benefit is you don't have to do the BA work just reengineer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Ambulance Chaser!
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Ambulance Chaser!
I preferred to think of myself as a storm chaser, this guy was no accident! Besides storm chasing is more manly :-O
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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"I'm in hades" I hope you get to meet Persephone and come out smelling of roses.
Peter Wasser Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa
pwasser wrote:
Persephone
Well I do feel a bit like Sisyphus....
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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After years of hearing rumors about this project-from-hell beast I think that I am there. I have been given the privilege of maintaining an ASP app that was written by a consultant some years ago. This is the stuff of nightmares... I pulled out 69 pages (!) of hard coded SQL queries. Mostly consisting of SELECT * and line after line of concatenating strings and constants. Funny thing is that most of the time he would SELECT * and then pull tow or three fields out of the result set. I am told the he refused to use stored procedures. There is one and only one .aspx page. The rest of the views are hard coded strings containing HTML spewed out by Response.Write's inside the various classes. Best of all, he locked them into using his proprietary DLL that he used sometimes to connect to the database and sometimes he used SQLClient. I guess the "good" news is that the app works and I only have to perform minor updates. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Lounge activities. Thank you.
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
Wes Aday wrote:
Mostly consisting of SELECT * and line after line of concatenating strings and constants. Funny thing is that most of the time he would SELECT * and then pull tow or three fields out of the result set. I am told the he refused to use stored procedures.
At my last job, the Lead Engineer had the same mindset and could not be swayed. Management didn't care, glad I'm out of there.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson