Right now, hometime and a nice quiet dump
Alt: Hitting F5 and seeing all my code fall apart in a second. The M25 on Friday. My sweet, lovely children becoming smelly teenagers.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 14:46, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I've just updated a script I wrote a while ago
Worryingly it is now smaller, simpler and 3 times as fast and is working at the first attempt. I fear I may have just broken the world
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 14:47, Reply)

BURN THE WITCH!
Edit: The problem I have is I'm working with an application I've inherited from about five different developers with bizarre coding standards, so I'm torn between trying to do things my way and keeping some consistency in the beast.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 14:48, Reply)

A lot of our scripts were originally coded by me
but were taken over by someone with "haphazard" testing to say the least. As a result of his last "experiment" I have had to take them all back and am frantically trying to update a lot of them to work properly again
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 14:54, Reply)

My boss took an "IO buffering" change I made to a script and applied it to another problem script
and reduced the time it took to run from 17 hours to 21 minutes. I'm awesome by proxy now.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 15:15, Reply)

Nice
I remember many moons ago doing a server swap from Unix to Windows and a process that took over 24 hours to run per week period (and they had 33 weeks to run it through) ran all of it in 15 mins. The site actually refused point blank to believe it had worked until they looked at the data.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 15:18, Reply)