Is this an effective and efficient way to ensure robust communication? Or is it a facile way of demonstrating how busy one is? Because, seriously, the two in the example I’m working off can take their “I’m doing FOO know. You should do BAR”, “I’m almost done with BAR, you should be able to start…
I’m getting daily emails from MLB reminding me that I can vote for the MLB All Stars. We’re not even 9% of the way through the season and yet I’m supposed to be voting on the best players? At least let them finish the first month before unleashing the haranguing. Familiar refrain: I love baseball.…
I have a little quiz for you. What two things do the following have in common? Rick Ankiel Chris Carpenter Allen Craig Ivan DeJesus Carlos Quentin Andres Torres Chase Utley Arodys Vicaino Answer: They’re on the DL They’re on my roster Admittedly, I took a few of these in the rotation draft knowing full well…
Oh my! So here’s my fun, work-related rant of the day. So nearly three years ago I was tasked with solving the problem of how we could install the same application on a windows box multiple times in such a way that we could isolate customer data. In short, each customer gets its own installation…
Truly nothing better than to come home from a crap day at work to learn that the Belgian Wit was fermenting with such vigor as to blow the top off the airlock with krauseny goodness. The fermentation room smelled like beer and the bucket lid looked like the closing shot from some circle jerk pr0n…
After a fun morning of yard work (who ever heard of mowing the yard before April?), a dog meet up in the circle, and racking the peach wine we endeavored to brew up a yet to be branded Belgian Wit. Judging by the smell test administered via the airlock this morning, it promises to be…
When QA thinks of me, they probably sing this song in their heads. Or maybe out loud. Because this is how my day has gone…against my will.
Literally reaching to unplug the network jack on my laptop so I can put it in my bag so I can leave so that I can attend a hockey game this evening and someone comes by the cube and says “Oh thank god, someone from CM is here! I need help with a production issue.”…
Wednesday and Thursday were depressing days at work. All of the gains from last week crumbled into a crapular pit of despair on Wednesday afternoon. And then I decided to rewrite an entire module from the ground up. This is different than refactoring in that I don’t have the time to make improvements, I’m only…
On the one hand, yay, job security! On the other hand, holy hell! Probably more a factor of how we initially wrote the code, but the upgrade path has been abysmal going from v3.0 to v3.6. Just today I had to rewrite almost three years of custom actions just to get the damn things to…