test please delete

[NickFitz]

Ventured into the town for the first time this gig. Result: Greggs steak bake for lunch

[zara_backdog]

Hello Strangers

Hi there

How's tricks?

[Pondlife]

Ventured into the town for the first time this gig. Result: Greggs steak bake for lunch

Have you tried their new 'healthy' Chicken Katsu Pasty/Bake thingies? You have to make sure you get some filling in each bite but they're not bad.

[NickFitz]

Hi there

How's tricks?

Hi

Been a while

[NickFitz]

Have you tried their new 'healthy' Chicken Katsu Pasty/Bake thingies? You have to make sure you get some filling in each bite but they're not bad.

Nope - that's the first time I've been in a Greggs in a few months

[NickFitz]

At the hotel

Quite a nice evening out there, though of course it'll have turned into a nice night by the time I head off for my dinner

[NickFitz]

"It's like foreign keys; look at all the problems they cause."

This was part of the conversation that ensued when I pointed out a race condition waiting to happen in the codebase, which was ultimately dismissed on the grounds that it worked round the weird idea they have that primary keys can't be relied on, and is unlikely to happen very often

I know it's only an internal app that won't be used by many people, but still. Also, the only arguments I've ever heard suggesting that primary keys can be a problem are to do with sharding data across multiple database servers, which is hardly likely to be necessary in this case; so why not just do it right?

[NickFitz]

Better get my act together and head down the pub for dinner

[Alias]

[Alias]

Nice pint at the local...