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Next time, tell your boss that your bullshit load detector is peaking and he should find a job more suitable to his skills, like sanitation "engineer."
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Hardware improvements make miracles. You* may even tolerate Java IDEs nowdays. 
(*) You, not me.
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yeah, next update of our embedded tool set is Eclipse based. Can't wait.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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vunic is evil. I like evil 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Don't get too pleased. I walked into a client getting new software.
He bragged about buying a Huge, SUPER Fast DB Computer, and and SUPER Fast NAS using fiber...
This was 9 months after they started installing and testing "new" software designed for much smaller companies than his. But he thought he could throw hardware at it.
And I knew what he was going to say next... "So, why are we so slow?"
I asked: Did you, by chance, tell the developers what type of hardware you were installing?
Client: Yeah, of course!
Me: So, what incentive did you give them to pay attention to speed for the last 9 months?
Client: <jaw dropped=""> "No. You think they did not optimize things?"
Me: Would you waste your time doing that if the client has the biggest baddest servers ever?
Client: <turning green="">
Me: I am here for something else, but I can take a look at a future point. Make a list of the speed issues so I can see how bad they are...
...
Client: We'd like to add a new row in under 30 seconds on this screen. Currently 2.5 Minutes.
<he had="" a="" few="" pages="" of="" these.="" they="" literally="" paid="" someone="" with="" stop="" watch="" week="" earlier="">
This is all before going on line. the system is not even being heavily utilized, just tested.
The software company was not happy someone else was looking around...
I open up this "database". (Keep in mind they are used to much smaller companies, and the speed issues started when they tested loading real data, and then started testing)
I see NO INDEXES on the largest of tables. I see no FK (Foreign Keys anywhere: The company later brags that they are proud to have no FKs. While this is MSSQL, in Oracle a FK definition impacts the optimizer and the plan strategy in subtle, and beautiful ways)
Literally from that phone call, indexes showed up, and things started getting much better.
The moral of the story. Pay attention to efficiency. Run/test with REAL amounts of data, and on hardware LESS than your clients use. In most of our cases, we made developers run the entire stack on their machine (usually a developer laptop). That alone made the developers conscious of any slow routines they were testing. It usually annoyed them enough to fix the problem.
Finally, as we told this client. The right answer LATE is the wrong answer. Therefore, in the project specifications, and the requirements should be both GENERAL and SPECIFIC speed requirements. Also, any pages that come back (or client screens/queries) that exceed their numbers should be logging them. We like to put HTML Comments in with the TIMING information and a SPECIAL TAG that tells us if it is AT or BEYOND the acceptable response times. SO that when we run our tests, we can actually scan that HTML to validate that none of the pages took too long to come back.
Your boss isn't wrong to pay attention to resource consumption. Although he sounds clueless. If you keep doing what you are doing every week or two... WHEN would you assume YOU have a speed problem?
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...to my coworker. Yesterday "they" (the IT team) upgraded TFS.
5 PM : TFS is going down for upgrade.
9:17 PM : Ran into an issue and bring TFS back down.
2:13 AM : TFS is back online and looks good.
Hope he gets to sleep in today!
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TFS does that stand for: Terribly Foul Stuff ?
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RickZeeland wrote: TFS does that stand for: Terribly Foul Stuff ?
That's one definition. 
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Time for snacks / sleep / shi..t.....ake ?
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Looks like Temporarily Fubarred Server to me. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We've always had an "expert" come in to do that. It has saved a lot of time and trouble.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: We've always had an "expert" come in to do that. It has saved a lot of time and trouble.
Heh. These are supposed to be the experts, haha.
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Ah but this guy "wrote the book" on Scrum with TFS.
We don't do Scrum, but at least we definitely know we don't.
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Is TFS the product that replace VSS (Visual Source Suasage?)
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Thought that was an easy one, no doubt you'll tell me what I did wrong.
Ineffable
of - ine
French - f
story - fable
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I was nowhere near that one!
Nice misdirection! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oh, that clue was definitely effable.
This space for rent
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Pom Pey wrote: of - ine
I think we deserve an explanation of that one.
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Of a French story beyond words (9)
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Unwritten ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Of a French D'UN
story STABLE
beyond words
DUNSTABLE
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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