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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:35 pm
by thibodeaux
I'm going. Anybody else?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:09 pm
by GORDON
The good Italian places are in the old north end.
Get pics of the historical stuff. Carve dtman.com in something really old.
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:15 pm
by thibodeaux
Best presentation was "Ten Failures as a Software Architect." Basically a bunch of war stories. My favorite: "The Onion of Confusion."
The presenter's company got a call from a customer. The product basically was an ASP.NET app that dropped a file off on another system.
Customer: "We're not really getting the performance out of this thing that you guys promised. We've only got 5 users on the system."
Presenter: "Uh..ok, well, we'll check the ASP.NET logs. Hmmm. Nothing there, so we'll check the system logs. Ok, this is on Windows 2003. Can you give us remote desktop access?"
C: "I don't know. Can you do that when it's running under VMWare?"
P: "Excuse me?"
C: "Yeah, it's running on VMWare. Did we mention we're a Linux shop?"
P: "Uh huh. Well....I guess we could telnet to the box or something..."
C: "Oh, I've got a better idea. We'll just mail it to you!"
P: "Come again?"
C: "It's a laptop. We'll just mail it to you and you can debug it."
P: "..."
P: "While we've got you on the phone, you know that other system that the file gets dropped off on? What is that?"
C: "Oh, that's an AS 400."
P: "Ok then."
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:11 pm
by TheCatt
Wow.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:56 am
by Malcolm
Dayum. Just dayum.