Accounting as NetHack
2012-03-25 12:35:03.329285+02 by meuon 0 comments
I spent last week in mercenary geek mode with a couple of accountants, an occasional auditor and IT people for a latin american utility, in Spanish and Spanglish, tuning up the system for multi-company and multi-currency accounting.
At some point, I got a big smile on my face, because my brain slipped into the a strange parallel world where what I was doing was a lot like playing NetHack. It was arcane, lots of twisty passages, seemingly randomly created levels, and a smattering of Grues and Wumpi. The SQL prompt reminded me a NetHack-ish prompt with arcane commands and abstract descriptions of the room I was in.
All enemies were slain, some friends made, and only a little of my blood on some bones levels. The accountants are happy (as happy as accountants can be).. whome are responsible for bestowing golden coins. Soon, we will be exploring some more arcane corners of the dungeon together. Hopefully there are no Barney Doom characters lurking.
Why is the room I am in all softly padded?