Just a heads up that Visual Cut is really picky about command line arguments. Visual Cut does a bunch of stuff with Crystal Reports but in my current project it is just used to print reports on demand. The printing is done via a command line call to Visual Cut.
Reading the documentation and looking at the existing code the arguments seemed pretty straight forward, just standard key/value pairs in format “Key:Value”. For example:
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I was just talked into and/or talked my friends into purchasing Magicka. That reminded me I had posted Part 1 of “How the Gold Master was Delayed” and I should look for Part 2. It’s nice to see a humorous look at a very stressful time for both the developer and the client.
A realistic video about software development:
Exclusive How the Gold Master Was Delayed: Part I
If, like me, you typically work on business software for a single large client, aside from (shameless plug) Mini-Compressor, then make the following substitutions:
Publisher –> Large Company Buying Custom Software
Gold Master –> Release Date Promised to Customer Picked by Throwing Darts at a Calendar
Forum Troll –> Employee at Customer Company Trying to Fail Project for his/her Political Reasons
“An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.” - Robert Brault
As developers we all have standards, even if they aren’t that well defined. Of course I’m talking about technology standards but feel free to insert your social awareness and/or hygiene standard joke here. Standards can range from the usual coding standards to the names you give your servers (e.g Lord of the Rings Characters) and everything in-between.
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