Re: Recovering

On 2008-06-02, Paul <pssawyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

An example of what I originally had in mind from ex-ork was: PHB sees
the need to send some sort of data to his PHB; uses embedded
application report to get some but not quite all the nearly right data
from the DB; with much help from a semi-clueful clerk he transfers the
report file from the server to a W* machine where it is tortured into
*x**l and edited, saved as text and edited, then passed along to his
PHB, maybe as attachment, maybe printed on paper. Repeat sporadically
as the need arises.

When my group would notice this, we would have a good laugh, then one of
us would construct "a simple P*rl script" to select the right columns
from the DB, do any simple math, and mail the PHB plain text which could
be saved under the correct .ext and pretend it was *x**l all along. Add
this to cr*n and ignore from then on, until the feature requests come
in....

You are me and just described _many_ manual procedures I've been
automating away over the past not-quite-year. Amazing how little it
takes to get "walks on water" reviews from the suits sometimes...

Oh, and I claim my five $CURRENCY_UNITS.

Niklas
--
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control
over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor
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