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The Lounge War Stories Prize of being an Admin Post 302597635 by Peasant on Saturday 11th of February 2012 03:12:10 AM
Old 02-11-2012
Problem is when you fix other folks mistakes code-wise, you become the programer / maintainer of that overnight.

So being pro-active and showing initiative will actually backstab you later on Smilie
This is especially true for large-scale deployments and implementation.

My story is that my company implemented (bought) a completely new core solution.
There were, of course, alot of issues and bugs software wise.

But the unix part was working fine most of the time, so system folks like myself were helping business IT (app folks) to realize what's wrong by doing tcpdumps, AWR's.

At the end unix folks were explaning core bussiness to folks who should know it.

And nowadays (we are in production), i still get phone calls from folks who need their part explained.

That why in the past year or so i avoid being everything else except what i'm paid for.
It should be an advantage to know what's actually going on business-wise, but practice has showed otherwise.
 

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pods::SDLx::SFont(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    pods::SDLx::SFont(3pm)

NAME
SDLx::SFont - Extension making fonts out of images and printing them CATEGORY
Extension SYNOPSIS
use SDLx::SFont; use SDLx::App; #Make a surface #Select a font my $d = SDLx::App->new( title => 'app', width => 200, height => 200, depth => 32 ); my $font = SDLx::SFont->new('t/font.png'); #print using $font SDLx::SFont::print_text( $d, 10, 10, 'Huh' ); my $font2 = SDLx::SFont->new('t/font2.png'); #print using font2 SDLx::SFont::print_text( $d, 10, 10, 'Huh' ); $font->use(); #print using $font SDLx::SFont::print_text( $d, 10, 10, 'Huh' ); #that is it folks .. DESCRIPTION
a simpler print function for old SDL::SFont dependency on Frozen-Bubble and Pangzero. USAGE
see synopsis BUGS
You tell me! at sdlperl.ath.cx SUPPORT
#sdl irc.perl.org AUTHORS
See "AUTHORS" in SDL. COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. SEE ALSO
perl(1), SDL(2). perl v5.14.2 2012-05-28 pods::SDLx::SFont(3pm)
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