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  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    TD-238967 (12/6/2016)

    You should see the "forest" instead of the "tree". Think first, code later then you can have the best solution for your project. There so many best...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    December 6, 2016 at 10:20 am

    #1916303

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    Brian J. Parker (12/6/2016)

    There are, as you and several commenters note, a lot of factors; I wouldn't say that there was a universal best approach.

    Generally, what I've done is introduce...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    December 6, 2016 at 10:06 am

    #1916296

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    dhsweg (12/6/2016)

    I generally opt for the 'scrap and start over' approach. Building on a poor foundation is not a good practice, and if I must dig all the way...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    December 6, 2016 at 9:51 am

    #1916291

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    Early in my career I found myself in a situation, as a new IT manager for a company that had already hired a consulting company to begin design of their...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    December 6, 2016 at 3:57 am

    #1916174

  • RE: Go Code

    David.Poole (11/11/2016)

    Programmable toilet? That gives a whole new connotation to stack dump

    Love your comment above.

    On a serious note regarding Go Code, during the course of my various jobs in...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    November 11, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    #1912018

  • RE: Go Code

    Eric M Russell (11/11/2016)

    Despite working in IT as both a software developer and database administrator, I'm not a big fan of consumer gadgets or other technology that involves a lot...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    November 11, 2016 at 8:50 am

    #1911932

  • RE: Go Code

    manie (11/10/2016)

    Steve, I am sorry to say but I told you so in my (the) first post here. Some people are just plain rude and insulting. I, however, get your...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    November 11, 2016 at 7:58 am

    #1911913

  • RE: Go Code

    This entire discussion takes me back to the days before many of you were even born, the days when COBOL (for you young sprouts that was Common Business Oriented Language)....

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    November 10, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    #1911822

  • RE: Go Code

    David.Poole (11/10/2016)

    I would rather people took a course in change management.

    • What is the problem I am trying to solve?
    • How big is the problem?
    • What impact does the problem have?

    • Is the problem...

      Rick
      If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    November 10, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    #1911820

  • RE: Go Code

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/10/2016)

    skeleton567 (11/10/2016)

    Sure, and more people should drive 18-wheelers on the interstates. I think I'll go over the airport and volunteer to fly a load...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    November 10, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    #1911819

  • RE: Go Code

    Sure, and more people should drive 18-wheelers on the interstates. I think I'll go over the airport and volunteer to fly a load of folks to Chicago today, too.

    Having...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    November 10, 2016 at 6:32 am

    #1911646

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    Michael J. Babcock (10/18/2016)

    Eric M Russell (10/18/2016)

    One thing that can be said for single tier development tools like MS Access and FoxPro, they allow a developer to quickly stove pipe...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    October 20, 2016 at 10:44 am

    #1907719

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    Jeff Moden (10/17/2016)

    skeleton567 (10/17/2016)

    David.Poole (10/17/2016)

    I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    October 17, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    #1907045

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    David.Poole (10/17/2016)

    I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it was cheerfully generating...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    October 17, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    #1906992

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    Eric M Russell (10/17/2016)

    I occasionally encounter SQL that was originally coded back in the early '90s, even though it has been migrated to newer hardware and RDMS platforms several times...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

    October 17, 2016 at 7:47 am

    #1906861

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