Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 10:41:49 CST 2013
Tina, My motto has become, Life's a Beach and Then You Drown. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Tina Norris Fields < tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote: > Oh boy! Arthur, that is so familiar to me. After working for five weeks > to generate a specific report requested by my client, my client announces > that there is a second page needed for the report that nobody ever told me > about! > TNF > > Tina Norris Fields > tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com > 231-322-2787 > > > On 11/5/2013 8:11 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > >> Shamil et. al., >> >> This reminds me of a horrendous episode that happened years and years ago >> to me. I think it was the last time I ever flat-rated a contract. It was >> an >> insurance company. Everything worked as it was supposed to, except for one >> report. About 90% or maybe even more of the report was accurate. It was >> basically a list of pension funds, some of which were retired and some >> newly created, and the rest in between. The report did interest >> calculations, and I took pains to ensure that 365.26 days per year were >> used. For no apparent reason, some of the rows were wrong. I wrestled with >> that code for something like a month, and I could not explain the errors. >> Then one day in a meeting with the stakeholders, a guy mentioned that the >> company did their interest calculations based on a 360-day year. They >> simply ignored the Christmas period from the 25th of December to the 29th. >> >> Nobody had seen fit to mention this to me! Once this was mentioned, it >> took >> a few minutes to adjust the calculation and everybody was happy --- most >> of >> all me, because I had spent an unpaid month working on this problem. In >> retrospect, it's kind of funny, but at the time it was not at all funny. >> >> Arthur >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru >> >wrote: >> >> " Stand your ground if someone tells you that you have coded a defect >>> when >>> there is no documentation for the requirement." >>> >>> http://java.dzone.com/articles/its-not-bug-its >>> >>> >>> Be strong! :) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Салахетдинов Шамиль >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur