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Received a call last night from a manager who was having problems with a vendor system. She wanted to know if we ran nightly backups because she was interested in testing a couple of things in the next morning. The theory was that once the testing was completed I could revert the database and they'd be all set.
I assured her it would be no problem.
Out of the 20 databases that backed up last night guess which backup failed?
D'OH
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Ask her why she worked on the "Backup" version instead of the "Live", then blame her for the "Live" now being corrupted as well.
Then restore the previous days version and get her to fix the updates.
Do I have to think of everything? 
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If I were rich I'd hire a Brit as a consultant for my day to day life.
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After the May 7th election, DD could well be available!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Didn't we decide not to count people from Luton as British?
If not, we should have.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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From the MSN News article on that guy rescued after being at sea for 66 days:
"I waved my hands real slowly, and that's the signal 'I'm in distress help me,'" he told WAVY.
Really. The TV station that interviewed him has the call sign WAVY????
Marc
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Maybe that's because back in the analog days, it might've been the best way to describe the picture they were broadcasting...?
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Regular readers may recall a recent post of mine entitled
"I quit!"
Well, after much deliberation (MUCH deliberation) a great deal of stress, some negotiation and copious quantities of booze - I've changed my mind!
So I am remaining at my current employer - as Software Development Manager (my previous job title was "developer").
My job is now to stop our software being sh*t! improve our processes and procedures and ensure the production of quality, tested software.
Wish me luck!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Good Luck!
Have you got Management Support?
(Or have you got the promise of management support provided you don't change anything?)
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Thanks!
I have support from the top. Whether I have support from the middle remains to be seen.
it is commonly acknowledged that we must change something, as what we have produced over the last three or four years performs poorly, is inconsistent, poorly tested. ill documented, and hard to maintain, and, frankly, works less well than the MS Access product it replaces!
It's time to restore some pride in our work
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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On the plus side suicide remains an option.
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Don't do that!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Maxxx wrote: Software Development Manager
So you quit.
Anyways, good luck. Be a good manager to your team.
Maxxx wrote: Wish me luck!
I wish you luck. 
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Thanks.
One think I will say for my previous management experience, and that is I ended up with extremely loyal teams - teams that would insist on staying late to finish things on time, for example.
It will be harder, as I am changing roles within an existing team (a team that pre-existed my starting), but I'm up for the challenge!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Right. Well, see you down the funny farm, I guess! 
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Well, I won't be there - but if that's where you hang out ...
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Have they given you a date for your surgery?
Where I work, all engineers that become managers undergo a mandatory operation. They remove your brain, your spine, and if you're male, your 'two best friends'.
The good news is that the removed parts are stored in cryogenic suspension and reattached if you go back to being an engineer. This happened to my (now former) boss, when he reverted to being a developer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well, thank you for your support and confidence.
As it happens, I was Software Development Manager & CIO in a previous life - just got fed up with paper-pushing & not having time to get dirty in the code.
This role will be somewhat more hands-on - so less paperwork, less politics (well, one can but hope) and more responsibility for actually getting a good job done!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Maxxx wrote: less politics
Hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hic...
I hope like hell you become/are a good manager, they are bloody difficult to find and invaluable when they work well.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hic...
yeah - well I live in hope! Been at it long enough I should know better, but hope springs eternal, and all that!
Mycroft Holmes wrote: hope like hell you become/are a good manager, they are bloody difficult to find and invaluable when they work well.
I think I am. Previous staff think I am. Previous company's think I am.
Current company & staff - that remains t be seen!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Oh, were those your balls I heard being detached? 
Break a leg.
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If that means that you have to manage your development of the same software that you were managing your development of before, but for more money, well done!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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May the Goddess Fortuna smile upon Thee !
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Thanks, Bill.
The Goddess' grin will be much appreciated.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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good luck
you can always get middle mgmt. on side by expressing the changes required in something they'll understand... $$
cr@ppy code == rework, waste, p*ssed off customers
rework ... == money
money == their jobs if they aren't 'on board'
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