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[somedaybitch]

so our resident geek digital tools guy is re-doing our asset management system. from scratch. aside from the fact that i love him for getting rid of the system that SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO didn't work, he just always makes reviewing screencaps fun.

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[ardaniel]

OMG DID THEY MANAGE TO DESTROY [REDACTED OTHER THING]

HOLY SHIT

Dude, sign of the apocalypse.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

heh. it's not gone yet, and may not be fully so until March-ish of next year, but yeah, it's going.

and? it was S's idea. for srsly.

[ardaniel]

Maybe he and F aren't BFFs any more? F put sometihng nasty on his Facebook wall?

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

asset mgmt system from scratch? buy him a beer for me, 'cuz that's pretty hard core. So... was the old mgmt system called Dominion, or summat? :devil:

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

it may as well have been. it really was rather a perpetual nightmare. not a bad idea, but seriously HORRIFIC customer non!service, in that the "out of the box" system does essentially nothing without modification.

[ardaniel]

The old one's infrastructure and client-side stuff was maintained by a dude who was not, by any estimation, a database programmer, data warehousing expert, or a VFX pipeline TD, or an even minimally socialized human being in general. But he was pals with the VFX supe and the head of production, so...

If anyone can actually write one from the ground up solo, it's the pipeline tools guy at T's office.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

or an even minimally socialized human being in general

lol. so true, so true.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

sadly you have no idea how many such people I have to work with every day... "yeah, I used a TRS-80 to program this so that I could never be fired..."

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

fire 'em anyway!!!!!!!

i heart our IT guys. they're totally the cat's meow.

[wishkey.livejournal.com]

"yeah, I used a TRS-80 to program this so that I could never be fired..."

*snort* He's the only one with a copy of the original code on cassette tape, right?

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

heh

[gingerwood.livejournal.com]

Give your guy a high-five for coming up with a way to get the user to actual review his specs in a timely manner.

I wish I worked with more sf geeks.