Comments on: Dear Boss http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:07:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rants and Revelations » They’re doing it again http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-26349 Rants and Revelations » They’re doing it again Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:25:51 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-26349 [...] I wrote about in Rants and Revelations » Dear Boss, my boss has a stick up his ass about my DocumentCache, and blames it for any problems with the [...] [...] I wrote about in Rants and Revelations » Dear Boss, my boss has a stick up his ass about my DocumentCache, and blames it for any problems with the [...]

]]> By: Mentis Fugit http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-22313 Mentis Fugit Mon, 07 May 2007 01:36:23 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-22313 By all means, fuck with the DocumentCache, Paul. (Someone had to say it, and now that someone's said it, we can all get on with our lack of lives.) By all means, fuck with the DocumentCache, Paul.

(Someone had to say it, and now that someone’s said it, we can all get on with our lack of lives.)

]]> By: ronebofh@livejournal http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-21934 ronebofh@livejournal Thu, 03 May 2007 18:23:02 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-21934 Cargo culting... it's FAN-tastic. Cargo culting… it’s FAN-tastic.

]]> By: Kris Johnson http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-21931 Kris Johnson Thu, 03 May 2007 16:58:21 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-21931 Building one of my company's codebases requires that people configure environment variables a certain way. Whenever the variables are *not* configured that way, they get a compilation error in a module that I wrote, because it happens to be the first one built. So, at least once a week, somebody who didn't RTFM asks why my code doesn't build. And I don't even work there anymore. Building one of my company’s codebases requires that people configure environment variables a certain way. Whenever the variables are *not* configured that way, they get a compilation error in a module that I wrote, because it happens to be the first one built.

So, at least once a week, somebody who didn’t RTFM asks why my code doesn’t build. And I don’t even work there anymore.

]]> By: Tina Marie http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-21895 Tina Marie Thu, 03 May 2007 15:30:00 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/05/03/dear-boss#comment-21895 I know the feeling. I wrote some baseline code 7 years ago that relies on the primary key, provided by a plug-in, to match up data. Ever since, every time it breaks, someone comes running to me because baselining is broken. Every time, it's been a plug-in changing the format or definition or something about their primary key. Despite many, many emails to product teams telling them that they cannot, ever, change their primary key without breaking baselining. I'm in the process of designing the next generation of baselining, and I swear I'm going to figure a way to detect that the primary key has changed, and pop up a message telling them to contact the plug-in team. I know the feeling. I wrote some baseline code 7 years ago that relies on the primary key, provided by a plug-in, to match up data.

Ever since, every time it breaks, someone comes running to me because baselining is broken. Every time, it’s been a plug-in changing the format or definition or something about their primary key. Despite many, many emails to product teams telling them that they cannot, ever, change their primary key without breaking baselining.

I’m in the process of designing the next generation of baselining, and I swear I’m going to figure a way to detect that the primary key has changed, and pop up a message telling them to contact the plug-in team.

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