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Pressure
I do not handle stress well.
Wednesday was bad.
Yesterday wasn't that bad, but I fell asleep almost immediately upon coming
home, and still managed to get up late.
Today is bad.
As if osCommerce [1] wasn't bad enough (that site … how can anybody use that
site? It's the most horribly designed site I've come across) I now get to
debug the Dansie Shopping Cart [2].
Woot!
Only 102 warnings when run with /usr/bin/perl -w (and since perl spits out
those warnings when the script runs, it confuses Apache [3]).
Running it without the warnings option gives me:
> ": No such file or directory
>
I also like this bit:
> # May not be used without purchasing a license. Do not attempt to run this
> # script on a site other than which it was licensed for.
> # Modification of this script other than:
> # 1. Adjusting the perl path in the first line above.
> # 2. Or setting the $vars variable below.
> # May void your right to technical support and subject you to legal action.
>
And the customer is upset because she paid for this and she doesn't
understand it worked on four other servers and why can't I fix it and … and …
and … and …
According to this, I can't debug their 4,000 line script (technically, it was
one line; all the formatting had been removed to protect the guilty) without
subjecting her to possible legal liability and voiding her warrentee.
The conversation went downhill from there.
The upshot: the customer doesn't care—she wants it working.
So I get the job of debugging some wonderful perl code.
[1]
http://www.oscommerce.org/
[2]
http://www.dansie.net/cart.html
[3]
http://httpd.apache.org/
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