I bet people think the same thing about my code. Dennis
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 17:28, Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > Hi John: > > I like that, I I wish I was more versed in poetry and Literature. I had > plenty > of opportunities but I always refused. > > About your VB project, you are somewhat lucky that it was only one person > because it is easier to study one individual's mind than many. In my case, > like a "creudian", I have discovered at lest 4 distinctive personalities, > some of them paying close attention to detail, some others just wanted to get > it out of the way. And some others seem to have hired yet a kid or something > out of a warez hacking community where people tYpe LiKE tHiS and they go as > far as actually name variables in that fashion. It is pretty bad. > > Take care, > > Alvaro Zuniga > > PS: Creudian, trying to combine code with Freud :-) > > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 02:25 pm, John Hebert wrote: > > http://eserver.org/poetry/light-brigade.html > > > > I've been working on a VB project for almost a year now that started with > > somebody else's crappy code. Ended up throwing out 90% of it. Hence, the > > quote: > > > > Not tho' the soldier knew > > Someone had blunder'd: > > Their's not to make reply, > > Their's not to reason why, > > Their's but to do and die: > > Into the valley of Death > > Rode the six hundred. > > > > From: "The Charge of the Light Brigade" > > Written by ma homey Lord Tennyson > > > > > > John Hebert > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alvaro Zuniga > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: 9/17/03 2:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mail vs database for stats > > > > Hi john: > > I guess a little work, I will probably just skip creating the body of > > the > > message and sending it. Then, use the variables for a query to go into > > the > > database and a couple other addons like counters or other calculations. > > This > > will take some designing to see what they really want and most > > importantly, > > getting rid of all the crap that is sent to them for some unknown > > reason. > > > > Now, what is The Charge of the Light Brigade? Probably some nice piece > > of > > literature I should have already read :-) > > > > Take care, > > > > Alvaro Zuniga > > > > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 11:57 am, John Hebert wrote: > > > Wow. Sounds like you have a heck of a job ahead of you, Alvaro. > > > > Reminds me > > > > > of "The Charge of the Light Brigade". > > > > > > "Into the valley of Death > > > Rode the six hundred." > > > > > > :) > > > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alvaro Zuniga > > > To: [email protected] > > > Sent: 9/17/03 11:44 AM > > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mail vs database for stats > > > > > > Thanks Dustin: > > > That is a very good quetion. I believe the emails are stored in > > > > folders > > > > > and > > > they are accessed as need basis and deleted after some period of time. > > > > I > > > > > know > > > it is a terrible idea buy it is already in place. I am looking forward > > > to > > > change that. It will be fun because this interacts with about 320 > > > databases > > > controlled by a cronjob that runs every minute. Some email is > > > > processed > > > > > here > > > and then some data is posted to another server which is the one > > > generating > > > most of the emails. The emails contain the information of every > > > > monetary > > > > > transaction which could better managed the simple way, a database and > > > > an > > > > > interface. I wonder who came up with that but I am sure this person > > > never > > > imagined this will grow to this extent. > > > > > > Take care, > > > > > > Alvaro Zuniga > > > > > > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:27 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > > At 12:26 AM 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > > > >My question is, is the overhead of sending an email considerably > > > > > > larger > > > > > > > > than an already active database connection with locked > > > > > > tables(mysql). If > > > > > > > > I invest the time rewritting this application so that a statistics > > > > > database exists instead of sending this emails to the person that > > > > > > does > > > > > > > > the work out of the emails worth it? I am mostly concerned with > > > > > > server > > > > > > > > performance rather than making someone elses work easier. > > > > > > > > I would definitely record the information in the database rather > > > > than > > > > > send > > > > > > > an email. If nothing else you need to consider the amount of time > > > > > > taken to > > > > > > > startup a new process to transmit the email vs. the already running > > > > > > process > > > > > > > that is updating the database. > > > > > > > > Who the heck is reading all of these emails? Man, that job must > > > > suck! > > > > > > "Cool, only 230,234 emails to go and I can grab some lunch." > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> > > > > Providing expertise in the management, integration, and > > > > security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > General mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
