Was he writing custom patches for it, re-implementing SSL, custom services.
I think you wanted to tell us about how hard setting up irc could be but ended up telling us something about your VP of Engineering.
Setting up anything for IRC - be it a bouncer, a bot, an ircd - requires just one thing:
Being able to read, comprehend and some patience.
If all that fails, you just hop on IRC and ask the devs in the projects channel....
Was he writing custom patches for it, re-implementing SSL, custom services.
I think you wanted to tell us about how hard setting up irc could be but ended up telling us something about your VP of Engineering.