Back from Christmas vacation, contractor account expired, no VPN, no mails.
Of course, contractor IT is not available.

Project Lead: “This needs to be fixed until Friday, no matter what!”

This is not how this works, that’s not how any of this works...

Do you know PTC Integrity?

If you do, you know my pain.
If you don’t, enjoy your life and stay away from PTC Integrity!
You have been warned

Confession - Testdriven UnitTests
First of all, I regret all and wish there would be no SQL Scripts but an external tool to analyze data, but the project grew hysterically and when I joined the sh*t had already been established...
I had to test some SQL Scripts. As there is no real UnitTest framework which is under development/gets support, the whole suite is kinda buggy.
So I had my script, and had the required input + expected output, but the UnitTest always failed. So I manipulated the framework parameters until the test finally passed.
Shame on me and on the project, but atleast there are tests now...

That moment when the cash point gets restarted, a Linux with kernel 2.6 boots and you wonder why there is a postfix service running...

Attach the debugger - software runs
Remove the debugger - software doesn’t run
Happy Debugging...
debugging without being able to attach a debugger?! Sounds like a long day, if not even days...

Metasyntactic variables, you use them, but do you know their origin?

This should be essential programmers knowledge:
https://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt/

Sysadmin gives me 32GB RAM for my workstation. Fucking Windows decides to create a 30 GB pagefile just in case the 32GB RAM are not enough. So my systems SSD is getting peppered with rubbish. Thank you Microsoft...

#define TRUE __LINE__

Happy Debugging :)

Worst: Having Toolchain Problems while responsible colleague is on sick leave and a software release is tightly planned
Best: Fixing that fucking toolchain, delivering in time and getting commendation from SW Project Lead