Timelies all!

One down side to the warmer weather we're having this week is that my lab turns into a sauna. (There must be something wonky with the heating system, because the temperature in the room is about ten degrees warmer than the temperature in the hall) Nothing like peeling off nitrile gloves and having your hands be dripping wet...

It goes dev->test->ops. They delivered the test version (correct) AND the dev (which just went to test, but hasn't actually started testing yet.) Install procedure unpacks the highest version number. Which was the dev. Which contains major database changes. So naturally, crashed and burned and confused the fuck out of everyone.

tank dawgs, I think my day is done!

Install procedure unpacks the highest version number. Which was the dev.

Uh, oops?

There's a firm sort of lockdown on dev->QA->production promotion at my current company for code, but I'm currently convinced that we're going to bump into data issues, since our QA box is being used by the production team for staging. It's a convoluted DMZ/firewall configuration, and we're having severe terminology issues.

It'll all get hashed out before we go live, I'm sure. I'm just impatient that I haven't managed to explain myself well enough to my boss yet to communicate where I think things are fuzzy.

tank dawgs, I think my day is done!

eta: You just made me miss the unedited thread. But with my current sticky laptop keyboard, every thread is a bit unedited these days.

One of the associates is pouting at me because I told him that the pre-2000 German administrative material he wanted a) wasn't online, b) would take a month or more to get, and c)would be in German.

Dude, seriously?

oh dear. I just sent DH on a bit of a goose chase. erm.

He'll forgive me, right?

There's a certain amount of fluidity between the composition of the test and dev teams, though the actual systems they run on are discreet. This was a human error sort of thing, because the CM person acts both as the dev/test and test/ops liason. He'd just delivered dev to test late last week, and then went and delivered from test to ops, having forgotten latest in test was the untested dev version. We don't usually deliver a new build to test until after we've delivered to ops, but as today proves, it can happen.

And now I am going to work off some frustration in the pool.

I just sent DH on a bit of a goose chase. erm.

Right handed monkey wrench?
Elbow grease?
Key to the batter's box?

pre-2000 German administrative material?

In English?