NYCPHP Meetup

[Adam Fields]

James Wetterau wrote:
[...]
> I also like the sense of comfort it gives you when plunging into
> oddball tasks where no one's the expert, e.g. "Can you make this
> 25-year-old unsupported APL program running on an old mainframe using
> EBCDIC character encoding work correctly with data coming from a
> custom VB COM component running on NT4 that interoperates with and
> relies on stored procedures in a Sybase database hosted on SunOS
> 4.1.4?  We upgraded the environment and something broke."  I enjoy
> those kinds of questions.  There are no experts for that sort of
> thing, and only breadth of experience really counts and really helps.

Hey! I wrote that! There was some FAME 4GL in there too...

Man, I hate APL.