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Jamie Hale wrote: That can't be said for the other contractor they brought in (along with a team of 10 other developers) Do project managers ever read case studies? :rolleyes: John www.silveronion.com[^]
Someone, somewhere, decided that if we have more fingers on the keyboard, we'll finish faster. J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
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We have one. On friday. As in 3 days from now. Trouble is, the highly paid consultants who came it to help "finish off" the project have completely broken our test console. This means that unless they fix a steadily growing list of major (read: catastrophic) issues, we'll be "freezing" untested code. Hurray. Remaining issues: - data acquisition console machines blue-screens during scans - one control application spits out run-time errors (VB) and dies - another control application gets itself into a state where we have to restart it in order to do two successive scans - when it runs, calibration takes roughly 2 hours instead of the required 15 minutes - last I heard we could scan at 30rpm instead of the required 200rpm ... For those of you not following the drama, this is an inspection system for making sure that the nuclear power plants in Ontario (and Quebec possibly) run safely. :~ J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
Jeez, we don't let any microsoft stuff anything near our chemical plant.. sheesh!! My world tour What I do now.. "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" George Best. "I suppose if it was a choice between bon jovi and the interior of a car, the car would win, even it didnt have a radio and I had to sit in silence" James Simpson on Light Metal.
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We have one. On friday. As in 3 days from now. Trouble is, the highly paid consultants who came it to help "finish off" the project have completely broken our test console. This means that unless they fix a steadily growing list of major (read: catastrophic) issues, we'll be "freezing" untested code. Hurray. Remaining issues: - data acquisition console machines blue-screens during scans - one control application spits out run-time errors (VB) and dies - another control application gets itself into a state where we have to restart it in order to do two successive scans - when it runs, calibration takes roughly 2 hours instead of the required 15 minutes - last I heard we could scan at 30rpm instead of the required 200rpm ... For those of you not following the drama, this is an inspection system for making sure that the nuclear power plants in Ontario (and Quebec possibly) run safely. :~ J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
Maybe I won't catch that flight back to Toronto on Friday... cheers, Chris Maunder
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Jeez, we don't let any microsoft stuff anything near our chemical plant.. sheesh!! My world tour What I do now.. "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" George Best. "I suppose if it was a choice between bon jovi and the interior of a car, the car would win, even it didnt have a radio and I had to sit in silence" James Simpson on Light Metal.
Well, nobody asked for my opinion when they were spec'ing the thing out. :( J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
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Maybe I won't catch that flight back to Toronto on Friday... cheers, Chris Maunder
You'll be fine... just make a quiet request that the pilot approach Pearson from the west. And make sure you give him a shifty-eyed look too. :~ J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
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We have one. On friday. As in 3 days from now. Trouble is, the highly paid consultants who came it to help "finish off" the project have completely broken our test console. This means that unless they fix a steadily growing list of major (read: catastrophic) issues, we'll be "freezing" untested code. Hurray. Remaining issues: - data acquisition console machines blue-screens during scans - one control application spits out run-time errors (VB) and dies - another control application gets itself into a state where we have to restart it in order to do two successive scans - when it runs, calibration takes roughly 2 hours instead of the required 15 minutes - last I heard we could scan at 30rpm instead of the required 200rpm ... For those of you not following the drama, this is an inspection system for making sure that the nuclear power plants in Ontario (and Quebec possibly) run safely. :~ J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
Jamie Hale wrote: - one control application spits out run-time errors (VB) and dies ... making sure that the nuclear power plants in Ontario (and Quebec possibly) run safely Our power plants are managed by VB code ? :wtf: Thank god i moved to San Diego. :) ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set
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You'll be fine... just make a quiet request that the pilot approach Pearson from the west. And make sure you give him a shifty-eyed look too. :~ J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
They don't allow types like me near tha cabins anymore :( cheers, Chris Maunder
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Not mission critical. They shut the reactor down, then we do the fuel-channel inspections. And hope that our scanning system works. :) J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
Jamie Hale wrote: They shut the reactor down, Um... If I would have to go in and do the inspections, I would call that part very much "mission critical" :~
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We have one. On friday. As in 3 days from now. Trouble is, the highly paid consultants who came it to help "finish off" the project have completely broken our test console. This means that unless they fix a steadily growing list of major (read: catastrophic) issues, we'll be "freezing" untested code. Hurray. Remaining issues: - data acquisition console machines blue-screens during scans - one control application spits out run-time errors (VB) and dies - another control application gets itself into a state where we have to restart it in order to do two successive scans - when it runs, calibration takes roughly 2 hours instead of the required 15 minutes - last I heard we could scan at 30rpm instead of the required 200rpm ... For those of you not following the drama, this is an inspection system for making sure that the nuclear power plants in Ontario (and Quebec possibly) run safely. :~ J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
Jamie Hale wrote: nuclear power plants in Ontario Like the one in in Pickering that's close to where I live?? (and even more importantly, close to the CP servers) :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
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Jamie Hale wrote: nuclear power plants in Ontario Like the one in in Pickering that's close to where I live?? (and even more importantly, close to the CP servers) :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
That would be the one. :) J
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."