I can’t help but note here that the world did indeed not end on December 21st 2012. I haven’t yet heard the new end date.. but I will continue development (on my life) until a new date is officially announced. 1. Work/Programming So this is what a Lame Duck Engineer feels like :D. The current plan is to continue to…
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Five Things on a Monday – November 2012 is fired… December is on notice
**WARNING INCOMING TMI** I’ll cut here to save your fragile eyes. Summary: Bad things happened. Change is scary. We’re ok, we’ll get past this. “Everything works out okay in the end. If it’s not ok then it’s not the end”
Five Things on a Monday – Winds of change
1. Work/Programming How many different ways can I say “I’m working busily on the same thing I work on last week”? Winds of change are blowing at work. Interesting to see where they go. I don’t exactly like it.. but it is what it is. 2. Home On Friday furniture-man delivered a dining room table and 6 chairs (correction, he…
Five Things on a Monday
1. Work/Programming Last week I did a cart-before-the-horse and presented a design for the prototype I’ve been working on for the last 2-3 weeks. There was still good feedback from the group.. but it was kind of nice to be able to say “it works this way” instead of “I kind of think it might maybe work this way.. but…
Friday Five – Miss me?
You know how whenever someone stops blogging regularly it’s because they’ve fallen off the wagon.. or something dire has happened? Yeah, not so much. A lot has happened.. and honestly I don’t think any of it was bad. I’ve been busy busy busy and haven’t had time (or in some cases Internet access). So I’ll take a bit to bring…
Five Things – Feeling All Accomplished
I wrote this before I left for Pennsic.. and forgot to post it. So.. just pretend you saw this a week an a half ago. 1. Work/Programming I’ve started back up with doing Work Friday Fives. At the end of each week I send a quick note to my boss letting him know what I’m working on, what I’m stuck…
Friday Five – Batrachomyomachy
1. Work/Programming “Let me ‘splain.. no .. is too long.. let me summarize”.. this week I took things that had gotten out of sync and made them be back in sync again. It’s boring to explain.. but honestly this is the kind of thing I like to do.. well ok.. no.. not really like.. but if it isn’t done it…
Friday Five – Loopy if I say so myself
1. Work/Programming Busy busy busy at work. Yesterday I had lunch with my boss’s boss (who works out of the Florida office) and a bunch of the other San Francisco group that report up to her. One of the guys complained about how busy we are. I shushed him and reminded him that it’s better to be busy than not…
Friday Five – Friday the 13th edition
1. Work/Programming My pet project went to production yesterday. I finally got all the right permissions and got it live in the afternoon. So far nothing seems to have blown up. I’m heads down working on the next version. Currently it has 3 features and I’ve finished work on one of them. Luckily the one that’s finished is the hard…
Five Things – Post War Edition
1. Work/Programming My pet project has sucessfuly exited formal QA.. but I’m still waiting on RichMedia QA to complete. This means it may launch either tomorrow (doubtful) or maybe Thursday (or later). Today the Project Manager contacted me to get an estimate of how long it will take to do the next feature.. the feature I started, finished and tested…