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So finishes the week from hell. Customer left yesterday, and I got to go home early (that is, when it was still light outside). I think one of the big hangups was performance, which was pretty frustrating since we didn't get any inkling that it was any kind of problem before the customer came out. The customer didn't sign off on the FAT, but I think the verbal agreement was that if we could demonstrate the performance improvements, he'd sign.

I thought that one of the better things that came out of it is that we had only 50-odd bugs in 350+ test points. Of those, only about 35 were "real" bugs; the rest were pissant or enhancements.

We did get shown an e-mail that our customer sent to his boss-squared, who in turn forwarded to my boss-squared. Shit flows downhill, indeed.

Don't get me wrong, this guy's a great customer. He wants to make this work, and he wants to make sure it gets done. I'd rather have someone who acts like a stakeholder any day, but it's frustrating (there's that word again) that he had to point out a lot of this as obvious.

So next week will be spent tuning the Oracle DB and fixing the big bugs. Then I get to see how long I have to go up to Calgary. Blech.

The funniest part was the post-mortem demo we gave to the president, CEO, super-CTO, CTO, and CFO.

Both the questions the super-CTO had were nitpicky graphics ("Why is that message on two lines? It should be on one line!"). What a super-bozo. A multi-millionaire super-bozo, but a bozo nonetheless.

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