Whilst attempting to debug some work issues with a vendor today, I stumbled across some amusing comments in the code..

We need to find a model for you. Easy there tiger, we’re talking cars here…

We need to stop here to ask a few questions to Bubba!

We (what is this we shit) I know what model you [...]

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I’ve been asked to perform an upgrade for one of our vendors to a new version of our software. Unfortunately their data is still stored in the old DB format, and app pages. We figured the easier way to perform the upgrade would be to migrate their data to the new format, rather [...]

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Another issue where scripting easily helps your day job is handling the copious amounts of log files. I handle about 15 web servers in our production environment (that I remember off the top of my head), and quite a few in our dev/stage/qa environments. These generate a lot of log files. Our [...]

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I think I’m done working today. I’ve got so many projects going on, my brain has shut down. I have 65 tasks in my inbox waiting to be delt with, that doesn’t count the projects I am actively working on, like server consolidation, or an application upgrade. Nor does it count any [...]

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We have a small issue in one of our products, which will be fixed in the next release. When you login, it generates an “overview” chart (4 of them actually), and writes them to disk, and displays them to the user. The problem comes when they don’t clean up. Because the code [...]

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How do you turn a 12 (or more) hour job into 40 minutes? Script it…

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Something I’ve noticed around here, as I listen to somebody talking to a new hire, is the way we seem to be doing training, and discussions of our application. When I get asked what I do, or what my company does, I talk about all the good stuff, and how we impact the companies [...]

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I couldn’t but help laugh at this when I saw it yesterday. Especially after one of the QA team was trying to clean out a wireless keyboard he found on a different desk.

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A while ago we had deployed a virtual server to use with Track-It. As we were using a standard template, with sysprep, to build our virtual hosts, this went well. During a regular audit of the event log, I noticed that errors were being generated by SmaRTIndexServer-Importer and SmaRTIndexServer-Indexer. So I decided [...]

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Well, I stayed up last night until 2am, which shortly became 3 am, then on to 4 am. The new DST time period rolled over great for all my linux boxes, my windows boxes on the other hand, caused a bit of an issue. All the Windows 2003 servers rolled fine. As [...]

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