Tedious conversion
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I am working on a big brand name change conversion. Changing the company A to company B in the headers of a few thousand files. To avoid errors, I am doing it partially manually. The task is repetitive and some will say tedious. I quite enjoy it. This is nice not to have to use your brain every so often.
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I am working on a big brand name change conversion. Changing the company A to company B in the headers of a few thousand files. To avoid errors, I am doing it partially manually. The task is repetitive and some will say tedious. I quite enjoy it. This is nice not to have to use your brain every so often.
Pascal Ganaye wrote:
I quite enjoy it.
This is nice not to have to use your brain every so often.Perhaps you should consider running for a political office!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I am working on a big brand name change conversion. Changing the company A to company B in the headers of a few thousand files. To avoid errors, I am doing it partially manually. The task is repetitive and some will say tedious. I quite enjoy it. This is nice not to have to use your brain every so often.
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If the app was designed properly, a single config file change (and perhaps a few images) should have been enough.
Shameel wrote:
If the app was designed properly
Ha ha! Not knowing for sure, but I've had to do re-branding before. The titles in the build files should be automated, but the names in code comments need to be reviewed and replaced.
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Pascal Ganaye wrote:
I quite enjoy it.
This is nice not to have to use your brain every so often.Perhaps you should consider running for a political office!
Will Rogers never met me.
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If the app was designed properly, a single config file change (and perhaps a few images) should have been enough.
I did quite a bit of un-branding. IMO, there is no point of putting the name of the company in the folder structures. This I am limiting the changes. My aim is to be visibly re-branded from the outside. A little bit cleaner (that is unbranded) where I can without compromising integrity or adding a ton of work.
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If the app was designed properly, a single config file change (and perhaps a few images) should have been enough.
I suspect he's referring to the copyright notice they have in every header file. I only bother with published files, but some companies insist on having the notice in every source file.
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I suspect he's referring to the copyright notice they have in every header file. I only bother with published files, but some companies insist on having the notice in every source file.
Indeed I am. It was the most common and the easiest to change. There was many more other occurrences though. The namespaces in XML documents for one.
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Indeed I am. It was the most common and the easiest to change. There was many more other occurrences though. The namespaces in XML documents for one.
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Even then, instead of doing it manually, you should be able to automate this task by writing a small program that searches for and replaces words and patterns.
I know I could. It takes probably less time manually. I do what every non-programmer 'normal person' user would do. It is relaxing to be a 'normal person' occasionally.