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Howdy, y'all. You can see just how used I am to the LiveJournal thing; I haven't posted a single thing in two weeks. Somehow I'll have to remember not to neglect my adoring fans. That would be you, in case you couldn't tell. Hey, what's so funny?
There hasn't been too much new stuff going on recently. Just yesterday I went out for dinner and a movie with Ted and Charles, two of my old high school buddies who I pretty much didn't see at all during my four years of college. I've hung out with them a couple of times since, and it's really nice to catch up with what they're doing now. They're both in the software industry, though in pretty different roles. Charles is a programmer for DirecTV, working on a data services component. His stuff is going beta pretty soon, so he's been working pretty hard recently. Ted's working as a customer service guy for Ulead Systems, so he got to tell us funny stories about the customers that call him.
As for me, I've been plugging away at this new program that my company's developing, called Netex-G. Our release cycle is quite different than what you'd see at most larger companies. Most places put out a program after a year or more of working on it, and then release an update maybe every year. We're in a continual cycle of releases, where we put out a program, version 1.00, for example, and then make an improvement for version 1.01, released a few weeks later. Of course, when our customers purchase a license, they can download any new upgrades that we have. Otherwise the customers wouldn't have much incentive, knowing that if they held out for a few weeks longer, they could get a better product. Since we're small (about 11 employees at two offices), we're pretty responsive to the needs of our customers. So work's been keeping me busy, but not to the point where I'm working tons of overtime, thank goodness.
That's it for now. Pray that I write again within the next two weeks!
There hasn't been too much new stuff going on recently. Just yesterday I went out for dinner and a movie with Ted and Charles, two of my old high school buddies who I pretty much didn't see at all during my four years of college. I've hung out with them a couple of times since, and it's really nice to catch up with what they're doing now. They're both in the software industry, though in pretty different roles. Charles is a programmer for DirecTV, working on a data services component. His stuff is going beta pretty soon, so he's been working pretty hard recently. Ted's working as a customer service guy for Ulead Systems, so he got to tell us funny stories about the customers that call him.
As for me, I've been plugging away at this new program that my company's developing, called Netex-G. Our release cycle is quite different than what you'd see at most larger companies. Most places put out a program after a year or more of working on it, and then release an update maybe every year. We're in a continual cycle of releases, where we put out a program, version 1.00, for example, and then make an improvement for version 1.01, released a few weeks later. Of course, when our customers purchase a license, they can download any new upgrades that we have. Otherwise the customers wouldn't have much incentive, knowing that if they held out for a few weeks longer, they could get a better product. Since we're small (about 11 employees at two offices), we're pretty responsive to the needs of our customers. So work's been keeping me busy, but not to the point where I'm working tons of overtime, thank goodness.
That's it for now. Pray that I write again within the next two weeks!