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Having a Captain Ahab moment

All developers are susceptible to the Captain Ahab moment.  That one little thing in your system you just can't seem to make work.  The ever elusive white whale circling the boat, taunting you with your impotence.  Productivity crashes and burns in obsessive hunts over the great white whale.  I'm putting down my harpoon for the moment to spend the rest of the day working on something useful.  The world just isn't going to stop turning because I can't make the 3rd party grid control bend to my will, but there'll be hell to pay for missing the deadline on everything else.

 

 

Posted 09-14-2007 2:24 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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Jim Bonnie wrote re: Having a Captain Ahab moment
on 09-14-2007 3:54 PM

Come on Jeremy, let's hear some names, which of the Grid Controls is giving you grief ? I was quite happy last week to get Telerik wired up for inserts, updates, and deletes, but there certainly were a few colorful adjectives  along the way!

Jeremy D. Miller wrote re: Having a Captain Ahab moment
on 09-14-2007 5:09 PM

Not Telerik -- who generously donated a license to me for StoryTeller

Sean Chambers wrote re: Having a Captain Ahab moment
on 09-14-2007 8:05 PM

I personally was dealing with SSIS all day. definately the biggest white whale I've come across in quite awhile. At least enough to make me loose 25% more hair in one 8 hour period....arrr!!!!

Joe Ocampo wrote re: Having a Captain Ahab moment
on 09-14-2007 11:53 PM

Sounds like a nice T-Shirt:

I am having an Ahab moment!

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