steve kwan user experience designer

When faced with problems, do nothing

(April 7th, 2006 - 9:46AM)

For the last four or so years, WebGENCAT has had a known issue with handling very large indexes...or so we thought.

After weeks of extensive testing, we've discovered that the problem does not exist.

Our current working theory is that this problem surely existing at one point - it was a huge issue in a project several years ago - but our database provider, jBASE, must have fixed it without informing us. So now it seems a major barrier to indexing large databases has been removed, and we didn't have to do anything to make it happen.

This further confirms my theory that when faced with a problem, the best course of action is to do nothing. Anything that's really a big problem is bound to get sorted out by someone else.

(That's a joke.)