Naomi;

I would recommend that you see your manager immediately! You realize that you have a problem resolving the issues at hand, and it is imperative that you let your manager know. Perhaps he can have someone either take over the problem or have someone work with you.

“Two people working well together can do the work of four. Two people that cannot work well together will accomplish nothing”. Those are words from my German brother in law who was a General Contractor. I have found those words apply to programmers also! :)

Too bad the problem was not found before the applications were released. That is not good!

Tom


>Hi everybody,
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>About 4 business days ago I got a complex footprint assigned to me. There are two forms and one class involved with complex convoluted logic written several years ago by a person who has long since left the company. The class uses gridhittest method.
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>I've been looking at the code and making numerious changes trying to fix few bugs. Unfortunately, each attempt to fix the problems resolve in something new and ugly surfacing. I am basically ready to give up and ask my manager to assign another developer to this problem. I will release what I currently have, I think.
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>The problem here is:
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>1. We need to fix the problem in 2 versions of software. The code base is different, so we would need to apply similar fixes in two versions
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>2. I've been working with the latest version and, as I said, made a numerous changes. At this point I am not even sure that all of my changes are correct or if they solve the problem or introduce the new one.
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>I am wondering how to handle such situation and admit that I am beaten here?
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>Also, I've been working on C# code for a while, but because I got that assignment, I had to put that project aside for the time being.
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>Any ideas?
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>My manager is a very nice person and I guess I can call her and tell that I need a break from this assignment. Just need to get up the courage to call. I am also not certain how will it work.
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>Thanks in advance.