1. Work/Programming YEAH! Yesterday, finally, my project went live. It went off mostly without a hitch. Again we were on the phone with the vendor.. and again being on the phone with them made me anxious and unhappy. We said: Ok, so all your stuff is on hold? They said: Oh, yeah, all set. We said: Ok, we’re launching our…
Category: Five Things
Five Things
1. Work/Programming Slow launch is slow. We were supposed to go live with this at the beginning of March.. but we were having problems getting all of our testing done and this feature isn’t mission critical so we decided to wait until after March Madness.. we don’t launch anything during March Madness.. so we put this off until after March…
Thursday Things
1. Work/Programming Had a meeting today with our “special” vendor. I’ve come to the conclusion that they should never get on a call with us. Every time they do they make me anxious and unhappy. When we exchange email everything seems hunky dorey.. but then we get on a call and suddenly they make me feel like they’re a mom…
Wednesday Whatever (Like a friday five .. but less Friday-like)
I’m going to be busy busy busy on Friday so I figured I’ll do an early count down this week. 1. Work/Programming Things they are a-changing. I think I’m on the verge of getting a new boss. For the last year or so I’ve had one person listed as my on-paper boss and yet have been getting my marching orders…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming HA! We had a meeting with the vendor (the one who said our code was making their code run slow) and I told them I was having trouble reproducing the issue. If I can’t reproduce the problem I can’t fix it. They hemmed and they hawed.. and then finally they admitted that they can’t reproduce the problem either.…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming About a month ago in a meeting a vendor said that their code was running slowly because our code had some kind of issue and was loading their code slowly. Since wasn’t aware of their code running slow.. and I don’t make it a habit to yell at vendors in meetings I didn’t contradict them and instead said…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming Is it bad that I still really like my job? I mean it’s not like I’m saying “No, don’t give me time off for the Holiday”.. but all things considered.. it’s not a bad thing to go back to after the holiday. My last day of work was 12/20. I won’t be back in the office until 1/3.…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming The big huge giant project I’ve been working on for most of the year is going to get done launching next week. Busy busy busy. There’s another big huge giant project looming over me.. but I don’t start on that until Monday. So in the meantime I’m tying up loose ends on the previous big huge giant project…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming I am having -so- much fun! I know I’m not supposed to say that about “work” but I am. I finally have a development environment all setup and working for a project that I helped develop 10 years ago. On this project usually getting a dev env setup takes 2-3 weeks (I’ve done it a few times in…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming I need to get back to my roots and start practicing the mantra of “Under Promise and over deliver”. I made a mistake of underestimating a project.. which has since lingered on and on an is just dragging me down and interfering with my other projects. Initially I just thought my estimate was spot on.. but I come…