On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve speaks like the PHBs out there...they DO blame the product instead > of the devs. ---------------------- This is a 100% deployment issue. Why does a drive letter matter when the thing is called from ODBC? Everything is wired up internally just fine. This is pure ODBC consumption of VFP data. That is the failure. Deployment is a very big issue for the last 3 jobs or contracts that I have had. They want it programmed to work and they demand to have me hands off after testing is completed. At that time they can move it anywhere they want and make a tiny adjustment in a configuration (meta data, ini file, .config file or pick any other manner to have a pointer for code to use. This fails in a movement. It took about 12 billable hrs to find out that it was the drive letter alone. Talk about frustration not only to be seen as not in command of the data but to keep the COO and the shipping supervisor late as well because nobody was leaving till it was working. The DBC is just a container, remember that. Frail I might add but it is just a pointer to other data and or methods / scripts to extract and munge data. having this outside of the data it points to is semi dangerous. Sorry dude but that is a big sticking point. Security and all from MPOV. When there is a location change between the calling ODBC I'm sorry but that is not a dev screw up but a product malfunction. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
