If You Can Think Of It, It Will Happen!

Just had a really good one :)

If there's a faint possibility that a parameter for a routine might change, I whack it in the config. Now doing what I do means I work with a lot of different types of coders some good (not many) and some bad (surprising how many!). Anyway, one particular guy is one of those why would they ever want to do that or what's the point, that'll never happen types of guys. Fine - if he wants to do as little possible then that's fine. But. And it's a big but.

Today, the remote mail server they use for emailing from within their web applications has been changed and no longer allows remote mails to sent. Oops!
So all smug I say "just swap the mail server address that you'll have used in your config to use localhost - everybody's happy"
Him - guess what it was...drum roll..."like that's gonna happen, they're all hard coded, gonna take ages to swap all them!"
Me (raising my eyebrows with a small lips twist): "oh well..."

So I feel really good about that :) A classic example of if you can think of it, it will happen syndrome.