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Originally Posted by Hell Puppy
I didn't even know that All of 'Em was still around.
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You really gotta get out more, HP.
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How come it doesn't track Oprano? Last messages it loaded from here are from 2006.
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Nothing personal. Long story short. Good programmers are a bitch to find. And if you find a good one he tends to get tied up with long-term large-scale projects.
In short, Oprano upgraded to a version of VB that had a lot more features and differences than the previous one -- and also made enough template changes to the default too -- that our spiders didn't recognize it anymore. The programmer has finally finished his long-term project for us and after he does a short-term one for someone else is scheduled to rectify this problem.
And yeah, sure we could have gone instead and found another programmer (or more likely series of programmers) to learn the script from scratch and then make adjustments, but I've found in the long run it's best to wait for the main guy who worked extensively on it before and knows it back and forth to come back rather than go through a bunch of unknowns who are clueless and deal with their excessively long learning-curves. You end up with the same amount of time spent, a lot more money and never what you wanted; best to wait, even if it's a substantially longer time than desired.
Trust me, as soon as Scanner is able to pick up Oprano again I will be able to give out a long sigh of relief.