Re: Long processess and responsiveness

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:18:46 -0800 (PST), Oddball <oddball.bfi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cheers Jay!

Horked :) I like it - drop a definition and I might use that word :D

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hork#English --
1. (slang) To foul up; to be broken.
I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=horked
2. computer geek slang for programming code or software that is broken, f-ked
up, corrupted.
Dude, your code totally HORKED the build today.


At the moment I've got VBA comparing 20000 lines of data against 18000
lines of data. I pointed out that there are better, faster ways that
don't involve me playing Flash games while the thing runs, but they
won't listen.

Ah well, I'm getting payed I guess. It's the inefficiency of it all
that gets me :'(

BTDT and got more than a few T shirts. :-)

If they have a reason (as opposed to a prejudice), it might be that they don't
want to have to manage both a template and a DLL/assembly. I've seen solutions
like that descend into DLL hell. Since Office is strictly COM-based, .Net
doesn't help much with that.

Consider it job security.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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