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The program ate my livelihood

Megnut: Monday, in which a important project document gets eaten by a trial copy of an unnamed software package:

In which this week gets off to the most craptacular start because the used-to-think-it-was-OK-but-now-think-it's-HORRID project management software I've been using deleted my entire project plan. Yes. The whole thing. All 117 items scheduled between now and the end of the month, wonderfully assigned, beautifully estimated, and all in some stage of % complete.

I'm truly sympathetic to this, but I kind of find it hard to believe that you'd trust a document this important to a software trial version, and even if you did, you'd want to make damn sure you'd exported it to some non locked-in easily readable text format like CSV or XML, just in case something exactly like this happened. Despite my talking the talk, I've been bitten by similar situations myself, and all I can say is export early and often and make a lot of backups. Visual Age for Java used to keep everything in one big project repository file, and I learned to often export projects to source code. Both for backup purposes, and so I could make sure projects would compile using just ant and javac.

Posted by John on August 4, 2003 8:06 PM |

Comments

I would like to delegate that you have a clam chewing on your pancreas. Furthomore. u shud request my nipples in your studying arena. you should also b more honest with your walrus tights.
P.S. My mamoth has gone jello.

Posted by: humphrey McNugget | December 23, 2003 7:22 PM