Hello.
Today I am happy because finally, after almost two months of waiting, and a month-long stop at customs, my package finally arrived. What I am talking about? What package? Well a fantasy suit I bought to surprise my girlfriend with it, custom made. Hope she likes Friday.
She just got a job and she deserves some fun ;)
At work we are writing an SMS app that basically is prepared to build nuclear missiles with GPS and flight stabilizers and intelligent ogive heads but... is going to build paperclips. Seriously, it's so ill-conceived! I can't enter in much details but to send SMS on a schedule it will have SQL Server database, a Webservice, a Web app, a Windows tray app (for the scheduling on the server side) and a Windows tray app for the users part of it. Bad bad bad.
And we're going to develop it in a mix of VS2003 and VS2008. Yup!
On my project, I am working now. Going fine fine fine. And fast.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Hello there.
Today its raining here. Lots of blackouts.
My girlfriend is almost with a new job, so we can get together and rent a house to start living.
Myself my web project is progressing fine, got a new skin and it's integrating wonderfully.
Got a meeting with the November website client so that we correct some minor glitches they've found and that should be done today. Its 23.00 pm heheheh.
I'm still working on my home-made Media Center for our home, it's progressing nicely:
Pentium III at 1 Ghz
320 Mb of RAM
2 IDE Hdd's with 8 Gb each (I know, but it's an amateur thing)
1 DVD drive
1 Soundblaster Live 5.1
1 USB IR receiver + remote controller (bought at cheap chinese store)
At work I sense they are joking me around. Even the youngest one there, there seems my suggestions are always wrong and the way they envision new software is weird: they prefer to work low low tech and do things manually sometimes, yet another they tend to include all tidbits and go for ultra-high-tech. Just doesn't make sense.
And worse, they between the team of five we are, they seem to prefer one another from me, and give me the easiest assignments like manual writing or such. Coding is for the young guy.
Tomorrow we will present an SMS package to develop in the next few weeks, let's see how that goes.
Cya!
Today its raining here. Lots of blackouts.
My girlfriend is almost with a new job, so we can get together and rent a house to start living.
Myself my web project is progressing fine, got a new skin and it's integrating wonderfully.
Got a meeting with the November website client so that we correct some minor glitches they've found and that should be done today. Its 23.00 pm heheheh.
I'm still working on my home-made Media Center for our home, it's progressing nicely:
Pentium III at 1 Ghz
320 Mb of RAM
2 IDE Hdd's with 8 Gb each (I know, but it's an amateur thing)
1 DVD drive
1 Soundblaster Live 5.1
1 USB IR receiver + remote controller (bought at cheap chinese store)
At work I sense they are joking me around. Even the youngest one there, there seems my suggestions are always wrong and the way they envision new software is weird: they prefer to work low low tech and do things manually sometimes, yet another they tend to include all tidbits and go for ultra-high-tech. Just doesn't make sense.
And worse, they between the team of five we are, they seem to prefer one another from me, and give me the easiest assignments like manual writing or such. Coding is for the young guy.
Tomorrow we will present an SMS package to develop in the next few weeks, let's see how that goes.
Cya!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Day 2, 2008
Hello there.
Today I woke up from a restless night where I ate and ate and saw T.V. and dogs barked and all. I went up fresh to work to do a intensive day of websurfing with my colleague so we could find things to include in the 2008 version of our kindergarten software. The latest version is from 2002, still in VB6. Yuck.
We had lots of laughs for bugs in other softwares, took some ideas forward and are beginning sketching the new application. In VS2008 oh yeah.
I am now reformulating my own project. I will begin by basing it in the latest client website I created in December, and then:
- Rebuild the database from scratch, for multilingual purposes
- Move all existing code from .aspx back to classes structures
- Create visual parts that call the class structures, so I can better place them on page
- Integrate those database-driven visual elements in a css/html template I already got
- Rebuild the backoffice part to get in sync with the new stuff
And from then on:
- Make the code-behind migrate to webservices, to be available to many sites at once
- Etc.
Tonight I can't code because I'm going out with a couple friends, I haven't seen them since last year lol.
Bye!
Today I woke up from a restless night where I ate and ate and saw T.V. and dogs barked and all. I went up fresh to work to do a intensive day of websurfing with my colleague so we could find things to include in the 2008 version of our kindergarten software. The latest version is from 2002, still in VB6. Yuck.
We had lots of laughs for bugs in other softwares, took some ideas forward and are beginning sketching the new application. In VS2008 oh yeah.
I am now reformulating my own project. I will begin by basing it in the latest client website I created in December, and then:
- Rebuild the database from scratch, for multilingual purposes
- Move all existing code from .aspx back to classes structures
- Create visual parts that call the class structures, so I can better place them on page
- Integrate those database-driven visual elements in a css/html template I already got
- Rebuild the backoffice part to get in sync with the new stuff
And from then on:
- Make the code-behind migrate to webservices, to be available to many sites at once
- Etc.
Tonight I can't code because I'm going out with a couple friends, I haven't seen them since last year lol.
Bye!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
My blog - measurements
Hi
The reason I have a blog is that I wanted some guidance, some buoy to help me sort my life out in a year time frame. That seemed a great idea, because I had a motive, an incentive and a deadline.
I wrote the first entry here on April 25th 2007. I was unemployed, living from my parent's charity and no hope in the future.
Since then, I went back home like a dog with it's tail behind the legs, broken and unemployed, debts accumulating.
Eight months later, my life is getting for the better: I got a steady income, my work contract was recently renewed, my bills and debts are all paid, and actually I'm having some money aside. Ok, so I've been spending of frivolities like a new graphics card for 89€ for myself on christmas or small things I buy from impulse, like a fantasy suit I bought online for performing one of my girlfriend's erotic fantasies (it's one of the "new experiences" part in the blog text). They're part of life, and in fact I'm so close to my money, my girlfriend's sister gave me a piggybank for christmas. I'm more possessive than Mr. Scrooge :)
The reason I am not living in a small apartment with my girl is simply because I just paid my last debts in November, and December is a forgetful month with shopping (although I managed to buy Xmas presents for everyone that matters for less than 90€), and also because my girl hasn't been able to finish her final essay in the university. I promissed her the first month she gets employed we get our own home. Heck, I'm even building our livingroom PC media center and all!
In April 25th 2008 I plan to be living with her, both employed, and with my online home business thriving. It'll be a lot of work, but I think I can manage.
Stay tuned and comment this blog!
The reason I have a blog is that I wanted some guidance, some buoy to help me sort my life out in a year time frame. That seemed a great idea, because I had a motive, an incentive and a deadline.
I wrote the first entry here on April 25th 2007. I was unemployed, living from my parent's charity and no hope in the future.
Since then, I went back home like a dog with it's tail behind the legs, broken and unemployed, debts accumulating.
Eight months later, my life is getting for the better: I got a steady income, my work contract was recently renewed, my bills and debts are all paid, and actually I'm having some money aside. Ok, so I've been spending of frivolities like a new graphics card for 89€ for myself on christmas or small things I buy from impulse, like a fantasy suit I bought online for performing one of my girlfriend's erotic fantasies (it's one of the "new experiences" part in the blog text). They're part of life, and in fact I'm so close to my money, my girlfriend's sister gave me a piggybank for christmas. I'm more possessive than Mr. Scrooge :)
The reason I am not living in a small apartment with my girl is simply because I just paid my last debts in November, and December is a forgetful month with shopping (although I managed to buy Xmas presents for everyone that matters for less than 90€), and also because my girl hasn't been able to finish her final essay in the university. I promissed her the first month she gets employed we get our own home. Heck, I'm even building our livingroom PC media center and all!
In April 25th 2008 I plan to be living with her, both employed, and with my online home business thriving. It'll be a lot of work, but I think I can manage.
Stay tuned and comment this blog!
New Year
Hello and Happy New Year 2008!
That's right - I'm back and ready to make a balance of these few months of blogging.
Seems no one ever visited me, due in part to my prolonged absence between posts, and the fact I'm not advertising this blog at all. Maybe this year it will change...
About my day job: our huge travel agency project just went down the toilet, project which was one of the reasons I was hired. But my job isn't in peril. In fact I got renewed in December.
Why the project went down?
In part, because our client just kept adding more and more requests to the application. In part, because one of our (now fired) programmers just looked at porn and newspapers all day. In part, because the application consisted in a Windows app, two separate web apps (suppliers and agencies), a bunchful of webservices, an SQL database and the plans were to create two or more travel agency websites from there.
Pretty big project, only two programmers. The last three weeks, since my colleague was fired, the project management was my responsability, along with teaching a fellow colleague some real-world programming (he went straight from college). Pretty nightmare.
Besides, many and I mean MANY assumptions during the project two years of life went crashing down on us like a deck of cards. Imagine having to go from the last part of the process almost all the way to the start, realizing it was all wrong.
We needed to filter some hotel rooms based on user preferences, but we couldn't because the underlying filter was flawed. Why? The filter was done on a database table which was flawed. Why? Because the contracting window was flawed. Why? The products page was flawed. Why? Because the product families was flawed. Pretty neat huh?
So in the end the client terminated our contract, we were happy (both as programmers and as company) because the project was long past due and draining precious resources (me ;) and so all ended that way. It's a lesson on how NOT manage a project.
On my personal note, my own project has come with ups and downs through the weeks. I feel a need to gather some extra money online, which until now it's been all spending on the ISP. Sometimes I have grand ideas, sometimes small, and sometimes I feel no will whatsoever to enter Visual Studio and start programming.
I even tried a webservice approach but gave me no flexibility on what I wanted to achieve.
I'm confident that in this new year I will restart full-force and focused and manage to do a pretty darn thing and start earning my well-deserved money.
My girl and I are great, the families joined yesterday for the first time ever to pass a New Year's Eve and all went well. Hope to repeat next year.
My Star Trek amalgama of CDs, DVDs and cross-mixed-series-seasons are now reunited in a 75Gb partition, ready to begin being ordered and labeled correctly and then saved to DVD with nice DVD covers.
Im also trying to work up a bunch of old PC's here and do a Linux Media Center box. Even bought a USB remote controller for it.
About 2008:
I expect 2008 to be a changing year the way the last half of 2006 and all of 2007 were.
2006 for starting with my current girlfriend, 2006 for finally ending my small software firm for not being able to make money out of it, 2006 for getting a job as a door-to-door salesman and succeeding at it, 2006/2007 for living apart from daddys home in a different city for nine months, 2007 for getting a new job on the 2nd January, 2007 for getting my current job at this small software firm and getting with it until now, along many other stuff.
For 2008 my wish list is:
- Get together with my girlfriend in our own home
- Become a better, more responsible and more independent person
- Become better arranjed on my way of dress
- Brush my teeth more often. Maybe twice daily.
- Stop looking at SO MUCH porn online. I guess 20 DVD's are more that enough. ;)
- Make the most out of my daily time to run errands, go shopping, make chores and all
- Get a part time online home business to earn that extra cash I much need
- Make repairs to my car's three bumped doors, clean it often and maintenanted.
- Write in my blog more often
- Pay all my dues, my taxes and my social security
That's it for January 1st, 2008
Cya!
That's right - I'm back and ready to make a balance of these few months of blogging.
Seems no one ever visited me, due in part to my prolonged absence between posts, and the fact I'm not advertising this blog at all. Maybe this year it will change...
About my day job: our huge travel agency project just went down the toilet, project which was one of the reasons I was hired. But my job isn't in peril. In fact I got renewed in December.
Why the project went down?
In part, because our client just kept adding more and more requests to the application. In part, because one of our (now fired) programmers just looked at porn and newspapers all day. In part, because the application consisted in a Windows app, two separate web apps (suppliers and agencies), a bunchful of webservices, an SQL database and the plans were to create two or more travel agency websites from there.
Pretty big project, only two programmers. The last three weeks, since my colleague was fired, the project management was my responsability, along with teaching a fellow colleague some real-world programming (he went straight from college). Pretty nightmare.
Besides, many and I mean MANY assumptions during the project two years of life went crashing down on us like a deck of cards. Imagine having to go from the last part of the process almost all the way to the start, realizing it was all wrong.
We needed to filter some hotel rooms based on user preferences, but we couldn't because the underlying filter was flawed. Why? The filter was done on a database table which was flawed. Why? Because the contracting window was flawed. Why? The products page was flawed. Why? Because the product families was flawed. Pretty neat huh?
So in the end the client terminated our contract, we were happy (both as programmers and as company) because the project was long past due and draining precious resources (me ;) and so all ended that way. It's a lesson on how NOT manage a project.
On my personal note, my own project has come with ups and downs through the weeks. I feel a need to gather some extra money online, which until now it's been all spending on the ISP. Sometimes I have grand ideas, sometimes small, and sometimes I feel no will whatsoever to enter Visual Studio and start programming.
I even tried a webservice approach but gave me no flexibility on what I wanted to achieve.
I'm confident that in this new year I will restart full-force and focused and manage to do a pretty darn thing and start earning my well-deserved money.
My girl and I are great, the families joined yesterday for the first time ever to pass a New Year's Eve and all went well. Hope to repeat next year.
My Star Trek amalgama of CDs, DVDs and cross-mixed-series-seasons are now reunited in a 75Gb partition, ready to begin being ordered and labeled correctly and then saved to DVD with nice DVD covers.
Im also trying to work up a bunch of old PC's here and do a Linux Media Center box. Even bought a USB remote controller for it.
About 2008:
I expect 2008 to be a changing year the way the last half of 2006 and all of 2007 were.
2006 for starting with my current girlfriend, 2006 for finally ending my small software firm for not being able to make money out of it, 2006 for getting a job as a door-to-door salesman and succeeding at it, 2006/2007 for living apart from daddys home in a different city for nine months, 2007 for getting a new job on the 2nd January, 2007 for getting my current job at this small software firm and getting with it until now, along many other stuff.
For 2008 my wish list is:
- Get together with my girlfriend in our own home
- Become a better, more responsible and more independent person
- Become better arranjed on my way of dress
- Brush my teeth more often. Maybe twice daily.
- Stop looking at SO MUCH porn online. I guess 20 DVD's are more that enough. ;)
- Make the most out of my daily time to run errands, go shopping, make chores and all
- Get a part time online home business to earn that extra cash I much need
- Make repairs to my car's three bumped doors, clean it often and maintenanted.
- Write in my blog more often
- Pay all my dues, my taxes and my social security
That's it for January 1st, 2008
Cya!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Client website goes online
Pfhew!
The client's website I've been doing since July went officially online today. It's not really up because the account doesn't gracefully accepts ASP.net 2.0 change from 1.1, so by tomorrow morning it will be up.
I've already gave my bank info for them to pass along the dough so I can start paying bills and quit this host and move it all to the newest host. I'm two months late now...
In other news, my project is halted for a while, I'm feeling in no mood to program outside of work and keep questioning myself internally how well is this going to run. I mean, I don't offer nothing really innovative, new, cheaper, better, faster, is just another one of the same.
And then I see a free ASP.net host provider that has 55.000 accounts and I'm really happy to have only 0,5% of that user base, paying users, on my project debuttal. It would still give me PLENTY of cash to jump-start my life.
Other than that I've worked on my dayjob, go out every night with my girlfriend, some nights I go out with my friends too, sleep, annoy my ex girlfriend and count my cents till my next paycheck. Life is hard, but it's less harder now than a few months ago. Hope it keeps getting better now.
Ciao.
The client's website I've been doing since July went officially online today. It's not really up because the account doesn't gracefully accepts ASP.net 2.0 change from 1.1, so by tomorrow morning it will be up.
I've already gave my bank info for them to pass along the dough so I can start paying bills and quit this host and move it all to the newest host. I'm two months late now...
In other news, my project is halted for a while, I'm feeling in no mood to program outside of work and keep questioning myself internally how well is this going to run. I mean, I don't offer nothing really innovative, new, cheaper, better, faster, is just another one of the same.
And then I see a free ASP.net host provider that has 55.000 accounts and I'm really happy to have only 0,5% of that user base, paying users, on my project debuttal. It would still give me PLENTY of cash to jump-start my life.
Other than that I've worked on my dayjob, go out every night with my girlfriend, some nights I go out with my friends too, sleep, annoy my ex girlfriend and count my cents till my next paycheck. Life is hard, but it's less harder now than a few months ago. Hope it keeps getting better now.
Ciao.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Changes and more changes
Well hello there.
The website I've been doing in the past four months isn't complete. Today another email with more changes. Now the colour they choosed isn't the most likeable they have. They want more yellow.
More yellow it is.
But I want to see some green too.
I've just read their 7 changes, and they're all not that boring. I misread, they want a darker yellow, a darker gray, a zoomed in map, a text change, and the inclusion of a business number. It's something for two hours max.
My project is going fine, have database access for INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE and SELECT, already fills translation codes for multilanguage, automatically translates combobo...er... dropdownlists (ASP.NET lingo) and does some pages contents. I just wish you could see it! But no. Wait till it's ready!
Some more insights into business:
- Pass the ball to others (or cover your ass first)
- Always back what you say
- Deliver complete on time or before that
- Sometimes something wouldn't make sense until you talk to the fabricant
- Telephones serve to solve problems too
- Debug or walk thru something step by step and the solution will reveal itself
- Strong will, determination, self-assurance, conviction
- Everybody lies
- People like certifications and seals of approval and fabricant approvals
It's all for today, let's see it I can do something else in the next posts.
Maybe talk about a theme, a subject or anything like that. Comment!
The website I've been doing in the past four months isn't complete. Today another email with more changes. Now the colour they choosed isn't the most likeable they have. They want more yellow.
More yellow it is.
But I want to see some green too.
I've just read their 7 changes, and they're all not that boring. I misread, they want a darker yellow, a darker gray, a zoomed in map, a text change, and the inclusion of a business number. It's something for two hours max.
My project is going fine, have database access for INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE and SELECT, already fills translation codes for multilanguage, automatically translates combobo...er... dropdownlists (ASP.NET lingo) and does some pages contents. I just wish you could see it! But no. Wait till it's ready!
Some more insights into business:
- Pass the ball to others (or cover your ass first)
- Always back what you say
- Deliver complete on time or before that
- Sometimes something wouldn't make sense until you talk to the fabricant
- Telephones serve to solve problems too
- Debug or walk thru something step by step and the solution will reveal itself
- Strong will, determination, self-assurance, conviction
- Everybody lies
- People like certifications and seals of approval and fabricant approvals
It's all for today, let's see it I can do something else in the next posts.
Maybe talk about a theme, a subject or anything like that. Comment!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)