1. Work/Programming This week I’ve gained an added appreciation of my PMs. I’m now in a new group.. with a new “things-to-do” list. These last two weeks my main thing to do was to figure out how a new tagging system worked, test it out and then get one of our sites to make updates so they would be loading…
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Friday Five: Of Hand-flapping and Nice-To-Haves
1. Work/Programming At this point I have 13 years of industry experience as a Software Engineer. It occurs to me that I have learned some interesting lessons. First, I am a documentation animal. If I have to answer the same question twice I poke the answer into my technical wiki so that I can point people there instead of having…
Five Things: YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!
1. Work/Programming BART strike this week. It only kind of impacts my commute.. kind of meaning there’s a chance traffic from my direction will get bleed over traffic from the East Bay and be “terribly bad..” It’s enough of a chance that if I don’t have meetings that require my physical presence I’ll happily work at home. I finished the…
Friday Five: Five weeks and counting
1. Work/Programming I “met” the new team today.. as in we had an on-the-phone meeting. One person is in England (but is leaving the company at the end of January), one is in Australia (but is leaving end of um.. December(?) I think) and honestly I’m not exactly sure where the rest of them are. The meeting was interesting. This…
Five Things: CHANGE!!!
1. Work/Programming CHANGE! In the “Good News” category. It’s now official so I feel okay with announcing it. I now have a job after the end of this year!! Starting October 1 (and continuing for the foreseeable future) I’m now a “Revenue Platform Systems Engineer” (Big fancy title that means my department is changing… and that I’ll be working on…
Friday Five: Non-dieting weight loss
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Not much going on at work since I’ve been back. While I was gone I had a lot of emails that essential read “OMG THE WORLD IS ON FIRE…
The Getting Married Life
This one is long so I’m going to cut it here. Interested parties can click through to read more. Short summary: I got married.. it was kinda cool.
Friday Five: Pre-Wedding Edition
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. A lot of make-work at the moment. Some big-wig came up with an “this must be done before the end of the month” task and I’m pretty certain they…
Five Things: Smashing Looming Deadlines
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. I finished my adopted project early on Thursday last week but then someone else had to deploy it (I was on PTO on Friday and sick on Monday and…
Five Things: Chill-axing
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Adopted project is zipping along. I may even finish it early. It’s actually been kind of fun. Like playing a game with schitzphrentic rules where I’m not allowed to…