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  1. Aug 8th, 2001, 03:59 AM #1
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    Unexpected Arrival of Customer

    I'm working on this particular database app for a customer.

    I had it working great to show to him for a few weeks, then I found out he was away on holidays. So this morning I decided to work on it a bit, and improve it.

    So I started chopping and changing code, rearranging this and that, redoing pieces of code, changing the way things happen etc.

    About half way through this surgery, I get a phone call.
    Hi Jamie, I'll be with you in about 10 minutes to look at the application.


    ahhhhhh
    So it was a desperate struggle to get it together.
    Didnt work properly when he came in to look at it, but at least it did a few things that looked nice

    God damn these customers
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  2. Aug 8th, 2001, 04:09 AM #2
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    Most reasonable customers will understand things like this - if they don't see why us developers never like anything the way it is then they should learn to be one first
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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  3. Aug 8th, 2001, 04:19 AM #3
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    Ah yeah they understood, but it all just looked rather naff.
    Go to view the next record and you get a RTE.

    Add a new contact , RTE.
    Try to make a report, RTE.
    Update someone's info, RTE.

    And if they had of only looked a day earlier
    Ah well, at least I got paid in advance
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  4. Aug 8th, 2001, 04:20 AM #4
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    Hehe

    Yep, but it won't take you too long to sort it out
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    Oh yeah, ten minutes after they left I had a perfectly working copy. Damn
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  7. Aug 8th, 2001, 05:45 AM #6
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    Backup

    Well why didn't you just restore from the backup?
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  8. Aug 8th, 2001, 05:49 AM #7
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    Ah shaddap
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  9. Aug 8th, 2001, 06:24 AM #8
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    no back up?!?! tut tut

    you should see all the files i have

    01/01/01 12:30 vb34.zip
    01/01/01 15:00 vb34.zip
    01/01/01 17:00 vb34.zip
    02/01/01 12:30 vb34.zip
    02/01/01 15:00 vb34.zip
    02/01/01 17:00 vb34.zip
    03/01/01 12:30 vb34.zip
    03/01/01 15:00 vb34.zip
    03/01/01 17:30 vb34.zip

    ...and no, I didnt program on new years
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    Originally posted by chenko
    no back up?!?! tut tut

    you should see all the files i have

    01/01/01 12:30 vb34.zip
    01/01/01 15:00 vb34.zip
    01/01/01 17:00 vb34.zip
    02/01/01 12:30 vb34.zip
    02/01/01 15:00 vb34.zip
    02/01/01 17:00 vb34.zip
    03/01/01 12:30 vb34.zip
    03/01/01 15:00 vb34.zip
    03/01/01 17:30 vb34.zip

    ...and no, I didnt program on new years
    I missed the millenium due to my friend taking too long to make a move in a chess game...GRRR...

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  12. Aug 8th, 2001, 03:53 PM #10
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    Hehe

    I nearly missed the millennium due to being totally wasted and just about managing to crawl onto VB-World

    Also ended up singing down the phone to someone at about 2am
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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