Friggin ReportMill

[Baph]

Why oh why did they decide in their infinite stupidity to create ReportMill & make it case sensative? The thing is damn multi-plantform. It doesn't need to be case sensative, because a decent naming convention will mean that case issues never arise! :smt011

I've just spent the best part of 2 days hunting down a NullPointer Exception in a RM template, because the ReportMill documentation itself has a damn typo in it & they got the case wrong of one of their own function calls!:compcrash:

This was then complicated by the fact that one of our old developers copied this mistake, and didn't test it. In fact, no-one tested it before it got out to a customer who tried to use it, and then complained when the computer broke down in tears.

That old developer no longer works as a developer because he shirks responsability wherever possible, so there's no point in raising the issue higher up. I'll just fire off a ranting email to our commercial team & ReportMill themselves :|

Sorry, I'll sit quietly in the corner now. Just had to get that off me chest. :oops:

[MeridiaNx]

Could've been in Swahili for all I understood of that post hehe.......but I agree, darn computers, grrr......Though I only get as far as swearing at Microsoft/Tiscali normally :D

Vik's Vapourub help on tickly computer-related chest problems? Benilyn maybe?

[Baph]

Just got though the complete unit test, and the ******* thing works perfectly now. The only change I made? Subsituting "i" for "I". :rambo:

[MeridiaNx]

Your avatar photo scares me by the way, looks like the wrong type of Sprite from the adverts ;)

[Whynot]

I feel your pain:compcrash:

[Baph]

Your avatar photo scares me by the way, looks like the wrong type of Sprite from the adverts ;)
Oi, I'll have you know that's a true picture of me.

Only not at the moment, turn the smile upside down.

[MeridiaNx]

Your middle name doesn't happen to be Psammead does it?!

[Baph]

If I admit to that, the next thing you know I'll be granting wishes too!

[MeridiaNx]

I'll PM you my address for delivery of my new GSX-R then shall I? Don't want the rest of the forum getting jealous and using up your 1-a-day limit.

Don't worry about a race can on it though, no need to tax yourself ;)

[DanAbnormal]

Your selling what now?

[Moffatt666]

Don't you just LOVE documentation?

[Baph]

Get this, just as I was about to commit that work back to CVS, the Test Release manager came in.

You're working on 83741 (numbers picked at random, seemingly like he did) right? Wha? Erm, 42!

Oh, yea, I mean WO 23498 (more random numbers). Erm, talk to me in English & I might have a clue what the crap you're talking about.

The RM NPE issue. Ah yea, that one, what about it?

It's an unsupported application, no need to do the work.

:smt075:compcrash: