My Brain Is Full
(Boy I've got a lot of mileage out of that one over the years. Thanks Pythons!)
1. At work, I am bouncing back and forth between the Old CMS (a dozen or so interconnected modules, which I largely wrote myself, from scratch, over the course of the last 8 years) and the New CMS.NET (phase one, which is basically to rewrite the damned thing in a modern programming language). This causes brain-hurtage, because the old one's a VBScript ASP application, and the new one's a C#.NET ASP application.
a. For those less geeky, it's like translating a really complex set of instructions between two languages with completely different syntax, grammar, and spelling. Like Old English to Modern Japanese.
b. I'm interrupted constantly to add new functionality (usually minor), tweak settings, or answer questions about the old tool, which has just acquired a handful of new regular users.
2. Oh, and we're integrating what we actually need from yet ANOTHER elderly VBscript app, which we inherited, and which I loathe with an unholy passion.
a. I've spent five years trying to get someone to take ownership of a bad decision made by people no longer with the company. Now we have finally got people interested enough to pay attention. So yay.
b. But for political reasons, they need to show significant progress in the next 60-90 days, or the funding to fix it goes away.
3. At least a year ago, we were warned that the server team may, at any time, decide to stop supporting the technology on which our app is built.
4. All of this is happening during the most intensive buying season for one chunk of my client's client base.
5. In other news, I'm making Fridge Chili -- I felt like making chili in my nice cast iron dutch oven, but didn't get to the store to get the usual ton of fresh peppers. So this is cobbled together from whatever I had handy. Leftover pepper and onions, some frozen hot peppers I bought around Christmas, a teaspoon of minced garlic supplemented by powdered garlic, diced tomato leftover from Monday's cacciatore, canned stewed tomatoes, fresh ground beef that was on sale the other day. I was out of Crystal Hot Sauce, but otherwise I followed my usual chili rules -- brown the meat with garlic and spices, remove, sweat the onions & peppers with fresh garlic, add the meat, add the tomatoes, season, and simmer.
Smells okay so far; it has been simmering half an hour or so.
1. At work, I am bouncing back and forth between the Old CMS (a dozen or so interconnected modules, which I largely wrote myself, from scratch, over the course of the last 8 years) and the New CMS.NET (phase one, which is basically to rewrite the damned thing in a modern programming language). This causes brain-hurtage, because the old one's a VBScript ASP application, and the new one's a C#.NET ASP application.
a. For those less geeky, it's like translating a really complex set of instructions between two languages with completely different syntax, grammar, and spelling. Like Old English to Modern Japanese.
b. I'm interrupted constantly to add new functionality (usually minor), tweak settings, or answer questions about the old tool, which has just acquired a handful of new regular users.
2. Oh, and we're integrating what we actually need from yet ANOTHER elderly VBscript app, which we inherited, and which I loathe with an unholy passion.
a. I've spent five years trying to get someone to take ownership of a bad decision made by people no longer with the company. Now we have finally got people interested enough to pay attention. So yay.
b. But for political reasons, they need to show significant progress in the next 60-90 days, or the funding to fix it goes away.
3. At least a year ago, we were warned that the server team may, at any time, decide to stop supporting the technology on which our app is built.
4. All of this is happening during the most intensive buying season for one chunk of my client's client base.
5. In other news, I'm making Fridge Chili -- I felt like making chili in my nice cast iron dutch oven, but didn't get to the store to get the usual ton of fresh peppers. So this is cobbled together from whatever I had handy. Leftover pepper and onions, some frozen hot peppers I bought around Christmas, a teaspoon of minced garlic supplemented by powdered garlic, diced tomato leftover from Monday's cacciatore, canned stewed tomatoes, fresh ground beef that was on sale the other day. I was out of Crystal Hot Sauce, but otherwise I followed my usual chili rules -- brown the meat with garlic and spices, remove, sweat the onions & peppers with fresh garlic, add the meat, add the tomatoes, season, and simmer.
Smells okay so far; it has been simmering half an hour or so.