Re: Visual SourceSafe considered harmful

From: Duane Arnold (notme_at_notme.com)
Date: 02/23/05

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    Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:15:08 GMT

    "Phlip" <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote in news:1109118543.395192.217580
    @l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

    > Duane Arnold wrote:
    >
    >> Yeah, well I sat down at the command line 30 years ago . I didn't
    > like it
    >> then and I had no choice. I still don't like it and I do have a
    > choice. I
    >> would much rather point and click any time, any where, and any
    > place. I am
    >> still a programmer all day long. However, if I have to go to the
    > command
    >> line, I'll do that too. But in the meantime, I'll avoid the command
    > line.
    >
    >> I thought I had heard everything ;-)
    >
    > GUIs are for civilians. They are like training wheels. Engineers take
    > them off and ride.

    What? Are we in the military now? Are we getting ready for a Navy Seal
    paint ball game? I must have missed that. You need to take this somewhere
    but where is the question.

    >
    > For example, when I automate a build script, it...
    >
    > - pulls in all changed files
    > - builds any outputs whose dependencies changed
    > - runs all the tests
    > - publishes the results via e-mail and web.
    >
    > That is the nucleus of a daily build system. On a big project, it can
    > take hours. So, which parts would you like to keep manual, and which
    > parts would you like to automate, to run unattended?
    >

    Yes, that's what I like about the egger beaver young so called Top Guns.
    They have all that energy. Yeah, we have one or two of them on the project
    that did all that and more and the rest of us just sat back and watched.
    And every time a build needed to be done, guess who got stuck doing it
    while the rest of us went home? And when it crapped who got the call. The
    damn build took all day long and into the night sometimes. ;-) It finally
    got rotated to all team members only because they whined about it, and I
    have paid my dues on the build and DLL Hell too with the COM+ Test Server
    and the whole nine yards.

    Later as I got to eat and have some rounds to make.

    Duane :)

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