This Monday, I got a call from a friend who's working at a large US company selling chips and scanners for id cards. They are biding on a large contract for a foreign country and need to provide printed samples in their answer to this RFP. The deadline is next week.
The sample ids had to be printed in Europe and for some reason nobody realized that the shop printing the ids needed the data of the samples to be submitted using a custom XML input format, oups ! The raw material was already in Europe this Monday. My friend was desperate because of the delays and he was not able to find someone within his company to turn around on a dime to fix this. The shop printing the ids was officially closed this Thursday and Friday. I got the XML input specs from Europe at 3:30 am Tuesday and an Excel spreadsheet with the data for the samples a couple of hours later. We went back an forth with specifications from US and Europe. It was not just mapping the spreadsheet fields to an XML layout, some XML fields had to be generated and encoded to support OCR scanners. Took 2 days to get a decent output from the printing process with changes to the sample data, the field mapping, .... I wrote 119 Clojure code lines, I could probably rip of 20% to get more compact but debugging was a primary concern so I had lots of lets with local bindings to slice the marshaling and trace intermediate results. The real challenge was to work with people in a -6hrs time zone :))) I made sure that every party involved got the code I wrote and got acquainted with Clojure. The interactive nature of Clojure and the compactness of the code made all the difference in the turn around between spec updates and spiting out an updated XML input. Clojure saved the day for this company :)))) Now I can get back to more serious stuff on our product. Luc Préfontaine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
