I happen to find one of those about 6 months ago but it wasn't one of those happy moments. Pretty much everything was written in FoxPro including the web site but it was put together really, really bad. Over the weekend before I started, they decided to upgrade two of their servers and the end result was a nightmare. First day was a nice 14 hour day, second day ran into the third day with 40 hours straight, and on and on. The web site had code that was shared by the main application, but you had to pick and choose which to include in the compile or the whole site would go down. It took us a week to learn how to compile it since there wasn't any documentation of which prgs and tables [there were thousands] to include. Both the web site and the main application was a perfect example of what not to do with FoxPro. Everyone shared one exe on the floor which would write to dbf's located on another server, which created a batch file of what to update to the SQL server which would run a stored procedure every five minutes and update the SQL 7 server which would update the main SQL 2000 server located on yet another computer. And they wondered why it was so slow. Did I mention that the SQL 7 server had 12.1 GB of data, 512 MB of ram, a single PII with 0 bytes left on the hard drive. Locked up tight that first week which locked up the entire system. Same thing happen to the exchange server just two days later: no room no email. The boss was cussing out Microsoft everyday "They should of warned us that we were about to run out of space instead of just locking up". That is when I pointed out the log that have been spitting warnings for over a year. Mind you that happen on my second day - it didn't get any better.
That first week, I pulled over 100 hours. That pretty much was the way it was until I had enough after being yelled at for not working 72 hours straight [that was the owners claimed limit on how long he could work without sleep] and walked off. Now I teach. Three day weekends, 4 hours between my morning and afternoon classes which leaves plenty of time for a nice bike ride, no more 40 hour days or 100 hour weeks... Life is good again! Oh Matt - I ran into a guy riding a Bike Friday the other day on our weekly hill ride. That was pretty cool - too bad he couldn't keep up :) jeff fisher, MCP www.turbofish.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Jarvis Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 6:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Change in luck ? It's not every day that one of us scores a FoxPro gig... some of us (me) live vicariously through your good fortune... Best of Luck!! mj Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
