Odd situation this but I've been on a contract where they've brought in 2 people, myself & another guy, to complete a small project.
We decided that I'd do all the front end stuff & he'd do the middle tier & database stuff.
We're left to our own devices but have to report to management periodically to give progress updates. And therein lies the rub...
...A pattern has emerged in which I outline any design issues I have & how I intend to deal with them. Once I've finished speaking, there is a brief silence and my counterpart always says, without fail, the following words:
"My database can do that for you" ....then some explanatory guff.... followed by "let the database do the work. It's what it's there for"
He's like one of those characters in Viz who always turns up with a box of tricks that can fix any given situation.
The worst thing is that the management seem to like him; "The Welsh Wizard" they all call him.
Anyhow, his solutions have become more and more preposterous & I nearly choked on my coffee this morning when I was talking about some recursive templates I was going to use to display a load of hierarchical data on a web page.
He started off, as ever with "my database can do that..." and sat there straight faced as he explained how he was going to get his database to churn out the html that was going to be used on my web page... "let the database do the work...."
Then I had to go through the process of explaining why that isn't a good idea & by the time we'd finished we'd been in there 3 hours. It's like banging your head against a brick wall sometimes...
Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this individual. He seems to have been around a bit (wouldn't be surprised if he posts on here).
We decided that I'd do all the front end stuff & he'd do the middle tier & database stuff.
We're left to our own devices but have to report to management periodically to give progress updates. And therein lies the rub...
...A pattern has emerged in which I outline any design issues I have & how I intend to deal with them. Once I've finished speaking, there is a brief silence and my counterpart always says, without fail, the following words:
"My database can do that for you" ....then some explanatory guff.... followed by "let the database do the work. It's what it's there for"
He's like one of those characters in Viz who always turns up with a box of tricks that can fix any given situation.
The worst thing is that the management seem to like him; "The Welsh Wizard" they all call him.
Anyhow, his solutions have become more and more preposterous & I nearly choked on my coffee this morning when I was talking about some recursive templates I was going to use to display a load of hierarchical data on a web page.
He started off, as ever with "my database can do that..." and sat there straight faced as he explained how he was going to get his database to churn out the html that was going to be used on my web page... "let the database do the work...."
Then I had to go through the process of explaining why that isn't a good idea & by the time we'd finished we'd been in there 3 hours. It's like banging your head against a brick wall sometimes...
Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this individual. He seems to have been around a bit (wouldn't be surprised if he posts on here).
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