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“ANNIE GET YOUR GUN” — The Wild West lives again with Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. 7:30 p.m. Starts Monday and runs Mon.-Sat. through May 31. Some 12:30 and 4 p.m. shows. Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Dr., West Valley. $15-$25. (801) 984-9000. www.halecentretheatre.org.
“THE MIRACLE WORKER” — Drama derived from Helen Keller’s autobiography who was deaf and blind in 1880s. 7:30 p.m. Starts Friday and runs Mon.-Sat. through May 24. Dark: April 15-16, 22-23, 26. Matinees: 3:30 p.m. May 10, 17, 24. Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem. $11.50-$15.50. 226-8600. www.haletheater.com.
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN THEATRE — Student written, directed and acted 10-minute and short plays. 7 p.m. Opens today and runs through Sat., Monday and April 16-19. Black Box Theatre. UVSC. $6-$10. 863-8797.
“THE CLEAN HOUSE” — Warmhearted comedy that celebrates love, forgiveness and a joke good enough to die for. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Thurs; 8 p.m. Fri., Sat. 2 and 7 p.m. Sun. through April 27. Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North,Salt Lake City. (801) 363-7522.
“THE EYES OF BABYLON” — Solo performance piece developed from Iraq War Journals. Today through April 19 (various times). Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, Salt Lake City. $25-$30. www.arttix.org. Contains strong language and adult subject matter.
“PIRATES OF PENZANCE” — GilbertSullivan’s comic opera concerning a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates. 7:30 p.m. through May 3. (Fri., Sat., Mon.) Center Street Musical Theatre, 177 W. Center St., Provo. $8-$10. Dinner, 6:30 p.m./$10 addl. 373-4485. www.csmtc.com.
“THE RIVALS” — Romantic comedy. 7:30 p.m. through May 5 on Fri., Sat. and Mon. Valley Center Playhouse, 780 N. 200 East, Lindon. $5-$6. 785-1186.
“STONES” — Two one-act plays, Altars, about Abraham and Isaac; Tombs, about Christ and his mother, Mary. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Fri., Sat. through April 26. Covey Center, 425 W. Center St., Provo. $10. 852-7007. www.coveycenter.org.
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It’s the DWTF so it probably is a joke but by exaggeration not by spirit.
what a coincidence, I am a glutton for punishment as well. I’ve been itching for a root canal and an IRS audit.
A bunch of senior developers (including the boss) wanted me to develop the last bits of what they thought was a masterpiece: some sort of weird ass system developed on top of cygwin (on windows) based on everything from Crontab, shell, awk and Fortran.Their genius idea was to make a web based GUI working with Javascript, that would run locally on IE (so, without web server — a local filesystem-based thingy). It would blow up every month because one script would forget to create the directory for that month, etc.The architecture was so baroque, one script was 1500 lines of Perl, it would launch a multitude of awk scripts. Whoever wrote it didn’t have any notion of the 128+n exit values of shell scripts.What was bad is that I was at this meeting with a co-worker that’s also a friend and a fairly smart coder. I couldn’t handle the way he was reacting and I caught the giggle, then hiccup.Turns out people don’t like you getting hiccup at them. The two of us got fired a few weeks later, been very good friends ever since
I think you are very right. I had my first large contract like that. I was freindly and they trusted me to do it. I am weak when it comes to customer management so there were some problems but I got it done. Heh, just as I was finishing the last 5% of issues they bought another service. I still got paid though but I would have prefered to see it used.
Who’s the sheeple? The sheeple or the people that accuse other people of being sheeple by being a sheeple.
Access is not oracle/informix/db2 or anything else fancy, but you can deploy a working multi-user database plus UI and reports pretty fast if you know what you’re doing. It’s not that hard: there’s loads of documentation about its strengths and weaknesses and how to deal with them.I was hired at 2000/1 to do loads of this type of work and i got good results. Mostly they were enterprise self-service apps (like vacation scheduling, meeting room reservation, etc) on a really big site of a really big international European firm and the employers didn’t want to pay the SQL Server license.Last year i was again at the same site, this time doing some c++/linux stuff, much more interesting and fun, and most of those apps were still running virtually maintenance free (some features were added at some point, but no major overhauls afaik).It’s not something i would advise… but it can be done.that was my first job as a developer… it was fun too
Considering that the current year appeared to be hard coded into both the app and the database, I think a defrag was the least of their worries.My guess would be that the “completely grinding to a halt” was the result of some calculation trying to access data in a year that didn’t have a database table yet (or something equally idiotic).
They’d better be prepared to slaughter thousands of Pakistanis that will run up there to defend their country.
It’s surprising (or depressing) the number of applications I see in companies that were made by a non-programmer using Microsoft Access.Each of them is an horror story in itself, I could write an entire book about it, but I’m afraid that I’d kill myself before I finish it.
I bet Blackwater is laughing while being investigated. Regardless, they know that the US will not eject them from Iraq and the government works for them.
And then you wonder why you can’t find anything in your DB, because you know SQL, but the DB uses Access.
Going to be sick? Did he just read the 9/11 OMISSION report or something? IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!
No *****. This is like asking Dick Cheney to investigate Bush.
yep, sounds like they just needed a good defrag
You are so obviously trolling it’s sickening.