Hunting The Muse

A conversation between me

A conversation between me and my non-techie friend:

Me: See what I'm working on - I inherited this code where he is just storing all the incoming variables into a hash and then he dynamically loops through to create the sql statement using bind variables but since he's looping through the hash you don't actually see what columns were passed in, and it just so happens that some of the variables actually have to be adjusted but since I can't see what's going on than when it creates the bind variables and then loops through the hash again to populate the bind variables with the hash values sometimes the wrong values are binded to the question marks and sometimes they don't get binded at alll which means that the wrong values or no values at all get written to the database!

Her: Well, what you should DO is bind the bind variables to the time variables and then use the hash box to bind the variables to the fuel injection and the carburator, and...

Me: Wow, you sound reallly smart! What's a hash box?

Her: It's the box where you store your hash! And then you bind the fuel injector to the hash box and connect the superdrive to the zip disk and connect it to the firewire serial port midi thing, and then it's all solved! Posted by Curt at July 4, 2002 08:29 PM