Removed 2 lines of code in 2 days

[Jayesh A Lalwani]

So, we have a project that uses "dynamic" tables. Basically, for reasons lost in mist of time, every time a user logs on, they create a table to do transaction on the user's records. At some point, they delete those tables. They had used hibernate to map those table into Java. Now, since the table name changes, they had customized the Hibernate persister to change the table name of the sql

Trouble was we upgraded hibernate now, and the cusomization broke. So, I spend almost 2 days digging through hibernate code, and come up with a solution that works with upgraded hibernate. I also reduced the number of lines of code by 2

-2 LOC in 2 days. How's that for productivity?!

[Jesper de Jong]

Does that mean you will get a negative salary this month?

[Bear Bibeault]

You say that as if it's unusual.

[chris webster]

In my experience, most times people are using dynamic SQL, they really shouldn't. So you can usually remove a heck of a lot more than 2 lines of code and improve productivity at the same time.

Keep cutting out the dead wood!

[Jayesh A Lalwani]

Bear Bibeault wrote:You say that as if it's unusual.

Well I usually get to go debug into third party libraries about once a year or so. So, it's unusual enough for me to feel good about it when I get something done.

Jesper de Jong wrote:Does that mean you will get a negative salary this month?

Hope not!

I figured since I'm doing negative work very slowly anyways, I might as well goof off all afternoon.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

And this is why productivity != lines of code .

[Karthik Shiraly]

Labour charges for deleting 2 lines - $2.00
Knowing which 2 lines to delete - $99,998.00

[chris webster]

Karthik Shiraly wrote:Labour charges for deleting 2 lines - $2.00
Knowing which 2 lines to delete - $99,998.00

Now that's what I call productivity!

[Jesper de Jong]

Classic story: -2000 Lines Of Code

[J. Kevin Robbins]

Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:-2 LOC in 2 days. How's that for productivity?!

I think that qualifies you to work at Microsoft.

[Karthik Shiraly]

J. Kevin Robbins wrote:

Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:-2 LOC in 2 days. How's that for productivity?!

I think that qualifies you to work at Microsoft.

(Un?)fortunately, after recent developments like open sourcing .NET and giving away Office for free on mobiles, Microsoft is no longer the Borg. We devs will have to quickly find another punching bag.

[Anayonkar Shivalkar]

I agree with Karthik's comment

I remember a time when we had a bug in our code - it was thread related and for a few weeks it ping-ponged to different developers. After it came to me, I had to put almost 3 weeks fixing it. The major pain was - it was not easily reproducible (thread issues - you know )

The actual fix was adding one line.

It was around 18 months ago and only good thing is - it never broke again (at least that scenario was never reproduced again)

Fortunately where I work, we don't count productivity in terms of LOC