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Hi All,
I have mentioned in the past I have had Jira landed on me, the general response from the learned crowd was 'Kill it, Kill it with Fire'. I didn't really follow that view as I used to have manage tests and documentation using a combo of Access, Excel & Word (fun times), Jira appeared to have it all in one place. However one thing struck me as weird is the 'prefered' way to get to tests is using the menu's Project -> Test -> Plan Test Cycle and then select from the appropriate tests down the side. Fine a little illogical but I can deal with it. This works if you have the 'frame' open, also if you execute a ticket with the Execute button you can execute a test outside of a test cycle, which will cause my Boss to meltdown...
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It seems like it has been added to by different people, at different time, to do different things.
Now it can do various things some of which it was never meant to and it seems to be touted by people for various uses it can be be put to, like a Swiss Army Pen Knife, not the ideal tool but better than nothing. 
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Jira is a tool which is powerful and extensible.
That said, like any tool, it all depends on how you integrate it into your company, and how good the configured workflows match the real-life processes. If they do not match, as with any tool, you'll end up butthurt and crying - But that's not Jiras fault, but someone higherup ind the command chain not understanding how tools are supposed to help employees get work done effective and efficient rather than self-inflating a boss' ego about doing things the way he wants them done.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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I think the issue is my Boss is a big JIRA advocate, other higher people are not. Also the software dept doesn't want to use it as they think 'Big Brother is watching them' or something.
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JIRAssic park !
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glennPattonWork wrote: the software dept doesn't want to use it as they think 'Big Brother is watching them' or something.
Tell them that Big Brother looks down harshly on those who obstinately refuse to follow agreed company processes, and that Big Brother is very good at watching availability lists on LinkedIn.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Doctor, doctor! My boss has a meltdown when I click this!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've ranted a bit before about Microsoft's pathetic excuse for an operating system. Window's only achievement is through marketing and "it's good enough." My customers do not and will not tolerate their machines crashing for inexplicable reasons... my assessment of Windows 10 on a good day is marginal, on an average day pathetic, and on a bad day - criminal. I'm being generous. For 25 years I've put up with "it must be a driver" bullchips, and as a professional by now MS should have fixed their exposure to this issue - practice safe drivers. Anyway, I rant and I want peace on earth and free healthcare for all....
Google "BSOD diagnosis" and you will get a pant load of sites that are nothing more than shills for "magic" s/w that does absolutely nothing. The next major category is anything beginning with "answers.microsoft... " I actually can hope that most of the posts are AI driven, but I'm not sure.
So for those of you who get into the muck to solve or at least accurately identify Windows 10 system issues - what are your preferred sites? What sites eat raw bits and crap ammo when they are done? tomshardware can have some traction from time to time.... crap, I feel an article forming.
Charlie Gilley
There is nothing "free" in life. If you believe this, you believe in theft.
modified 20-Aug-19 23:56pm.
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Funny you mention that, I haven't seen a BSOD in.. ho.. I can't remember...
I wonder how people get them those days! 
Apart from Hardware fault, that is...
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was gonna say that.
although i think my windows install is hosed (but only a little bit). thanks VS2017.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Time to go VS2019! 
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I have that installed too but i've only ever opened it by accident
My sticking point is whenever i install a prerelease from microsoft, eventually the updates start hosing my install, whereas if i wait for a release version, the updates tend to work better.
i've had the problem with previous devstudio releases at least. and with windows.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Mmmm... I think I know what you mean...
At any rate I was pleasantly surprised when they said the .NET Core 3 rc2 installer (or rc3? or some other number!) and forward will uninstall previous (pre-release) versions, when installed.
And I checked it, it was true! 
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cool. glad to hear that.
you should check out Pck when you get the chance.
Pck: Code Roundup and Quick Start Guide[^]
It should be able to handle your dice parsing. No code in the grammars though. Because reasons (lots of them)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Cool, gotta have a look soon! 
Congratulation, look ever more sophisticated!
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I'd like to bounce some code-in-the-grammar ideas off of you at some point. I have an idea that may allow for associated code without it having to be in the grammar, using attributes and a "codebehind" class but i'd like a 2nd opinion. Just whenever.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Oh.. ok I will look at it Saturday most like... I am often knacked those days at night! :/ Having a bad food and allergy run at the moment... 
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sorry to hear that's still giving you trouble.
take your time. i don't want to rush you into anything.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Exactly.
Unless dealing with faulty hardware or bad drivers, it's literally been years I've seen a BSOD that the OS could be blamed for. Dare I say, these days I don't see Windows outright crashing/freezing any more frequently than some Linux distributions...
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+1 to the no BSOD club here. I haven't had any at all in Win10, and I code in VS2019 Pro (Knocking on some serious wood here). 2 years ago, I did have a workstation class motherboard die on me. Likely was around then was the last time I've seen a BSOD in Win7. Drivers can cause this as well. But I tend to buy quality hardware that seldom suffer those issues.
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Two of my users regularly still get BSODs.
I do know exactly why though for these two machines.
Whenever M$ update their handling of graphic devices, the vendor provided drivers for the graphic devices on these two (out of 20 odd physical machines) shut down and bang BSOD.
Of course, what we see on the screen gives absolutely no clue that this is the reason, just learnt the hard way.
Management asked me if we could invoice M$ for the several hundred hours of research I had to do to find the issue and document it sufficiently that someone else can recover these machines if I am not on-site. I suggested that this would only cause amusement in the the house of small soft things.
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Good finding man! 
This is so tricky.. :/
That's one of the reason I like mainstream hardware ... i.e. Intel (apparently AMD might be a good bet now) and NVidia...
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charlieg wrote: My customers do not and will not tolerate their machines crashing for inexplicable reasons
Kopy better codz?
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I didn't much like Win 10 when it came out: compared to Win 7 it was ugly, dull, and schizophrenic.
And yes, it still is all of those things.
But ... it doesn't crash on me, or anyone I support - no BSOD, no nothing. Some apps do, from time to time but that's not the OS's fault.
In all, it works. And when it runs on hardware that is designed to support it (like the Surface) it runs very well indeed. considering the number of different hardware combinations it has to work with, it's a small miracle that it ever manages to boot up, much less actually run!
Sorry - but in my experience, it's pretty reliable these days. Even if updates can be a PITA.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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