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[NickFitz]

Evening denizens

I've spent the last two days ploughing through some of the lousiest code I've seen in years

To be fair, the chap who assigned me to this bit of work did say at the start that it might be best to throw it away and start again - this I have now done

I've already worked out how to replace about three hundred lines of the existing PHP with two SQL queries. Given that the PHP was doing the same thing by constructing lots of little SQL queries, iterating over the results at each step to work out how to get the next little SQL query built, it made sense to just get the database to actually use its selecting, sorting, filtering and aggregating functionality to do the same thing

I think I'm running at around one character of SQL to one line of PHP replaced at the moment

Anyway, it's chucking out time. Being a small company, one can only stay as late as the last keyholder, and they all seem to have this peculiar obsession with work-life balance which is totally unhelpful to a contractor working out of reach of home

Still, home tomorrow - I'll have quite a bit of catching up to do here in TPD

[voodooflux]

[voodooflux]

Population
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Transport 99 %
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12 February: A new inhabitant has come to TPDVille.

[voodooflux]

A likely story... you're lurking for the 00 and the PALI.

You carsent fool I....

No really, I had to attend a geek fest. There was free coffee and biscuits too

[zeitghost]

Evening denizens

I've spent the last two days ploughing through some of the lousiest code I've seen in years

To be fair, the chap who assigned me to this bit of work did say at the start that it might be best to throw it away and start again - this I have now done

I've already worked out how to replace about three hundred lines of the existing PHP with two SQL queries. Given that the PHP was doing the same thing by constructing lots of little SQL queries, iterating over the results at each step to work out how to get the next little SQL query built, it made sense to just get the database to actually use its selecting, sorting, filtering and aggregating functionality to do the same thing

I think I'm running at around one character of SQL to one line of PHP replaced at the moment

Anyway, it's chucking out time. Being a small company, one can only stay as late as the last keyholder, and they all seem to have this peculiar obsession with work-life balance which is totally unhelpful to a contractor working out of reach of home

Still, home tomorrow - I'll have quite a bit of catching up to do here in TPD

Glad to see you're enjoying yourself...

7 weeks and 1 day to go...

[zeitghost]

No really, I had to attend a geek fest. There was free coffee and biscuits too

Jammy dodgers?

[voodooflux]

What's the betting that VF is lurking around for the century?

Slim I'd say

[zeitghost]

Ever so good to hear that the Japanese will be building the next lot of high speed trains.

Something else we can't do in this country thanks to the idiots in the Major government.

[zeitghost]

So here we are again...

I do find Thursdays tiring...

Particularly the afternoon.

[zeitghost]

Though it must be said that it's considerably less boring than Wednesdays, when I can often go without seeing another soul.