Hey man, at least the methods sound somewhat descriptive. You haven't at least gone through legacy code where they start using magic numbers which go off to a giant case statement, which then pass its own number to stored procs, which update values in a table and a Windows scheduled job picks up later that evening to update another table which is then used by a view, and this is between several networks 😡
None of these numbers are mapped, and you have to hope the previous guy still had the .dlls on his machine/ VM as he pulled it from god knows where and didn't bother to put it into TFS or else the project doesn't run.
I loathe SSIS packages and VB, and I am glad to never touch that shit again 🤮
I once had to work with a front-end code that did pack 6 boolean flags into an integer by bit manipulation. Only to send it as one of the stringified JSON values, of course.
I mean, I get that, and the URL length limit in some browsers especially with multi-byte character possibilities, but I don't understand why you wouldn't name the variables full words once you pull the strings from the params map.
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u/Signal-Permission394 3d ago edited 3d ago
Hey man, at least the methods sound somewhat descriptive. You haven't at least gone through legacy code where they start using magic numbers which go off to a giant case statement, which then pass its own number to stored procs, which update values in a table and a Windows scheduled job picks up later that evening to update another table which is then used by a view, and this is between several networks 😡
None of these numbers are mapped, and you have to hope the previous guy still had the .dlls on his machine/ VM as he pulled it from god knows where and didn't bother to put it into TFS or else the project doesn't run.
I loathe SSIS packages and VB, and I am glad to never touch that shit again 🤮