But it's his budget, he gets the call. You might want to suggest he swallow the pill now, because it might cost a lot more to "fix" later. Y2K is the poster child for that scenario, but is is really likely that the whole project won't be re-written in 3-5 years anyway?
Unless it's a long-term contract, swallow it. Going over his head will only promote an unnecessary animosity.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua O'Connor-Rose
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:24 PM
Subject: a tricky situation
My worst contract ever.
ok so I'm about to loose my cool and being that this
is a professional list and I'm trying professional does
anybody have any suggestions for how to approach a
senior who acts in this manner.
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me (9:55:48 AM): so now that we have 6.1 theres this
issue that's been bugging me (using ~ to designate
breaks) and with 6.1 theres a real easy way to fix the
issue using a nifty udf (user defined functions)
developed by Ben Forta (heard of him?) called
paragraphFormat2(str)
senior (10:01:16 AM): the function just uses replace()
to flip a char with another...yes?
me (10:01:43 AM): yes
me (10:01:55 AM): but instead of requiring the user to
put in ~
me (10:02:09 AM): it looks for chr(13) and chr(10)
me (10:02:23 AM): carriage returns and line breaks
me (10:02:57 AM): it also formats tabs
senior (10:03:17 AM): doe sit pick up soft returns?
me (10:03:55 AM): yes that's a line break
me (10:04:00 AM): chr(10)
senior (10:04:05 AM): what about spaces before soft
returns?
me (10:04:47 AM): leaves those alone
me (10:05:26 AM): (I think only ms word strips extra
spaces oh and html unless there is a character before
the soft return)
senior (10:06:22 AM): not to sound sarcastic...I am OK
with it bugging you for now...they are used to the ~
and they dont have to learn anything new...good item
for the wish list
senior (10:06:22 AM): not worth the time for now
me (10:23:03 AM): well to be clear as to where I stand
(so it can't be said I didn't communicate my feelings)
I believe its what professionals call bad code and it
bothers me as much as improper tabbing bothers you but
you seem fine with that.
senior (10:25:36 AM): it's all about time and
money...if we worked for free...we could bring
everything up to date...alas, we dont
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This is but one example of his defense of old code
that is just terrible (the worst is approx 16 pages
made to email/fax/preview an approval to a client).
Yet to the owners he is the golden boy because he
produces these 'miracles' of the web
Any advice
-Joshua O'Connor-Rose
-All is Good
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