Thorough Letter Checking
by Alex Papadimoulis
in CodeSOD
on 2010-12-15
"I'm a network admin by day and a PHP freelancer by night," Jarod writes. "It works pretty well. My clients (all two of them) assign me low-priority, get-it-done-whenever type projects, and I do my best to deliver 'soon' rather than 'later'. "
"During the day job, I got a handful of calls from an unrecognized number. When I finally had a chance to call back, it was a referral who was in 'very desperate' to fix his application. Apparently, they hired a graphic design shop to build them a CMS site, and it was slow as molasses. They spent weeks trying to improve things, but it just got worse. Fortunately, I was able to look at it that evening, and after digging through the project, I isolated the problem. It was coming from an addressbook view; their addressbook had 120,000 entries, and displayed 50 at a time,"