• Remy Martin (unregistered) in reply to Mark Bowitz
    Mark Bowitz:
    I'm afraid to report that I have some really sad news.

    At 7:35pm, March 17th, Alex lost conciousness and was taken to the emergency room with breathing complications. He was diagnosed with advanced-stage pnemonia and immediately placed on breathing tubes in the IC unit. Because of his low oxygen levels, he slipped into a coma. The doctors say they expect him to come out of it, but they don't know if it will be weeks or month. I'm sure he knows you all wish him a speedy recovery, and if theirs anyone who is interested in taking up the mantle in the meantime, send a writing sample and any past work to mailto:[email protected]. You can also send any well-wishes to his family, and I'll make sure there passed along.

    Yeah, that's what you get when you try to turn St. Patrick's Day into a whole non-stop weekend. Jesus, you gotta sober up somewhere in there; dude was found this morning in a rain gutter in a pool of his own vomit.

    I mean, yeah, send your condolences or unicorn pictures or whatever.

  • (cs) in reply to bjolling
    bjolling:
    CaptainSmartass:
    I have to wonder two things: first, which SVN client were they using? Because SmartSVN has hooks right into the Windows UI, which should make it much easier for HR types to use.
    Nice, but the entire Office suite hooks completely into Sharepoint. No need for the detour into the Windows UI to get to the repository

    QFT!!!

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    So TRWTF is using SVN, a program that only a moron would expect an HR department to use properly, instead of VSS, which was designed for this exact situation and requires little to no training.

    Giving them VSS (or any other source control package) would also qualify as a TRWTF. A custom-build turnkey collaboration system, something specifically tailored to their business needs - something built on top of/with, oh, I dunno, SharePoint, Adobe LifeCycle, something! - would have been a better alternative.

    The other WTF was that business people, HR people were handling their work data in spreadsheets and word documents (no, not everybody does it like this.) They needed a better business process, and a system that would support it.

    Instead they didn't have neither and were left to their own devices with a source control system. Nice way to go.

  • jirt (unregistered) in reply to Scarlet Manuka
    Scarlet Manuka:
    Curious George:
    Moto:
    ... "Please enter a comment with at least two words. Maybe a noun and a verb".

    Pity "off" is an adverb....

    Hah! Best one today. Hard to find amongst all the noise.

    Pity "off" is a preposition.

    I thinks in the situation he was meaning, it would be an adverb. But me has been wrong once or twixe before....

  • B Real (unregistered) in reply to jirt
    jirt:
    Scarlet Manuka:
    Curious George:
    Moto:
    ... "Please enter a comment with at least two words. Maybe a noun and a verb".

    Pity "off" is an adverb....

    Hah! Best one today. Hard to find amongst all the noise.

    Pity "off" is a preposition.

    I thinks in the situation he was meaning, it would be an adverb. But me has been wrong once or twixe before....

    No "kindly" would be an adverb...

  • JV (unregistered) in reply to boog
    Chopper:
    So, did the quality of the comments improve much?

    The error message returned by the hook said something along the lines of "Enter something informative and relative or Borris will break your legs in the parking lot after work."

    Surprisingly, it worked well.

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    This story makes me laugh. The sad thing is that my company has documents in folders called current, testing, and obsolete while the IS department uses SmartSVN

  • Swagman (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that IT expected HR to understand, cope with, and effectively utilize an RCS. I've met quite a few developers who can't do that...

  • Foo (unregistered)

    I have seen this before. The only differences were that:

    • This was with svn and my experience was with microsoft visual source safe
    • This was with the HR department and my experience was with a development team

    Yes, they saved copies of code in separate directories as backups.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Father Time
    Father Time:
    Pee-nut:
    TRWTF is waiting until noon to post a story.

    It's always noon somewhere...

    Except North Pole. Here we have true binary system - either is day or night.

    Captcha: acsi - what I get for not using spellchecker when trying to spell ASCII.

  • Mr anderson (unregistered)

    And about Microsoft Office 2007 Generic Edition ...

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