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A few musings.
First, I've been working on a project at work that has started to really irritate me because of 2 very important things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_featurism
The first more than the second.
The issue is that people understand what the project is about and want to contribute what they think they know is right and what they think my project can do, while losing sight of what it is ACTUALLY supposed to do and what it is supposed to be like. It can be very frustrating and would be nice if when requests came down from other departments if they got stopped one level above me with a simple 'No, that doesn't go with the scope of the project'.
Second - I love my FreeBSD server. 480 days of uptime, 99% idle through 99% of the time - the issue is that BSD is remarkably stable and I lose some of my skill at it because the damn thing rarely needs fixing. I have scripts that back everything up on a daily basis and ship it offsite - not that I'm complaining, it's just kind of a bittersweet thing, I love fixing servers and I don't have one of my own that ever really needs fixing.
First, I've been working on a project at work that has started to really irritate me because of 2 very important things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_featurism
The first more than the second.
The issue is that people understand what the project is about and want to contribute what they think they know is right and what they think my project can do, while losing sight of what it is ACTUALLY supposed to do and what it is supposed to be like. It can be very frustrating and would be nice if when requests came down from other departments if they got stopped one level above me with a simple 'No, that doesn't go with the scope of the project'.
Second - I love my FreeBSD server. 480 days of uptime, 99% idle through 99% of the time - the issue is that BSD is remarkably stable and I lose some of my skill at it because the damn thing rarely needs fixing. I have scripts that back everything up on a daily basis and ship it offsite - not that I'm complaining, it's just kind of a bittersweet thing, I love fixing servers and I don't have one of my own that ever really needs fixing.