ROAR!

__Stephen

-----Original Message-----

From: profox@leafe.com [mailto:profox@leafe.com]On Behalf Of Juergen

Wondzinski

Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 10:00 AM

To: Multiple recipients of ProFox

Subject: RE: [OT] inventory system

Hi _Stephen,

SET INTE ON ? Naaa, that's the old way of coding, since with that you

can't get the result back. Only functions can deliver a result, thus that's

why they added the DWIW(). SET INTE ON is like a EXE without READ EVENTS:

You see the results flashing by (BTW, thats why SET INTEnded is also spelled

out SET INTEnse) but your ideas are gone in the very same moment. DWIW() in

contrast works with scoping on the current user (the parameter) as well as

delivers the results in a clean way....

In our preliminary tests, the DWIW() worked extremly well, but we had

immense problems with the oUser parameter-object. Thus the results haven't

been exactly what the teammanager / customer wanted: Sometimes VFP was

trying to create an oBlonde object with several exposed properties,

sometimes it got lost in Cascading Destroy Events when trying to materialze

a champagne pyramid of 20 levels... We therefor are now first training our

programmers to be better focused on their job. But since mankind is some

sort of multitasking (or Multithreaded thinking?), we stil struggle with

maintaining a constant reference to that job-task. We even switched from

APARTMENT-Threading to SingleRoom Threading (i.e. one Programmer per room),

but this didn't made big differencies in terms of disturbances.

Due to newest Microsoft technologies, which we heavily studied (we even

renamed our companys name to a "DotNET" ending!), we are now trying to

decouple those events and have taken all programmers OFFSITE. Also we

applied SOAP on all our floors. Unfortunatly, the MARSHALLs, which we hired

to deliver the Customers wishes to the now Offline programmers are

constantly failing errr... falling due to the very slippery foundation, thus

we now applied ROPEs to all rooms, so that our Custom messages don't get

lost.

All in All, at the moment, we cannot deliver anything. But the whole

SOAP/ROPE scenario is so much fun, watching our Marshalls struggle with the

NET we tied around our building so that they can't miss our MMQS (Munichs

Most Questionable Secretary), if they can't contact the programmer.

The MMQS in turn takes nightly study lessons on DELPHI, so that she answers

all questions like an ORACLE.. "All will be working! We have everything

under Control", regardless of what the programmer will say, when he will be

back from under his desk... What? Why he is under his desk? Because of ROFL

watching those Marshals, struggling thru our NET framework.

Thus, we all have fun, we study a lot, we experiment a lot, we need lots of

resources for soapig and roping, (and cleaning after the horses of thos damn

marshalls). We don't deliver anything, but the MMQS takes care about that.

What can I say? LIVE IS FUN if you ride the NET-wave!! Don't know though,

who is paying for all that mess. But that's not my task, I just escalate

that to the "Powers that be". Delegation is one of the first principles of

proper OO desgin. Have your fun and let others get kicked too. Yeah!

Welcome to the new NET World! Just remember how boring the old way of coding

was: You just

USE YourCustomer , set him straight with SET ORDER TO TAG MyWay and BROWSE

his wallet. No fun anymore, compared to all that new toys MS deliveres every

year for free!

 Servus

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-----Original Message-----

From: profox@leafe.com [mailto:profox@leafe.com]On Behalf Of Stephen

Russell

Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 2:01 PM

To: Multiple recipients of ProFox

Subject: RE: inventory system

Oh Woody. It's been there as:

Set Intended On

__Stephen

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