a note for first-timers

If it's your first time here and you're new to blogs, the first post you'll see is the most recent so that's where you should be ending, rather than starting. Otherwise, carry on...

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vindication

At the start of December, shortly after I got back from The States, I was informed at work that there was something very wrong with the software we write here. I had a look at the problem and concluded very quickly that the problem was, in fact, with old data that had been entered before several fixes were made.

Fatkins was adamant that it was the code and I maintained that it was the data and/or configuration but that the code was perfectly okay - I wrote most of it in the first place and it worked fine under all circumstances but this particular instance, where there was old (shitty) data involved.

It turns out that I was entirely correct. Remarkable. I'm wondering whether I should wade in with an "I told you so" and, if so, how best to phrase it for maximum impact; or whether I should just sit back and smile knowingly to myself that I was right all along. For now, it's the latter...

Wombat - she actually said as much just now, though not to me. "We stuck with the same version because it was the data." were, though paraphrased, her words.

Right, I'm off to smirk for a bit.