On work & freedom
This week, at work, we deployed our first product. I only came in halfway through the project, but my code is in the final product. We are, from my count, on schedule, under budget(I saved the province ~96,000$ in Windows Licenses within my first two months!) and our system delivers more functionality than requested(on the robustness side--it can install new versions of itself). Unfortunately the places where we're deploying haven't got their networks up & running yet so while our boxes work, they don't have a connection to our main server so the whole system(a minimalist youtube replacement for saskatchewan students) hasn't started working as planned yet, but still---it's a major success story so far(the network will come up after the IT staff gets back from holidays no doubt, more on this later). A 10$M project consisting of my boss, my boss' boss, my coworker steve & me. It's my first project on this scale, and my first major success on this scale as well(today alone I probably pushed 30TB of data from computer to computer).
But it's pretty much done. We'll be probably starting to deploy the rest of them as soon as the rest of my coworkers come back from their respective holidays. I wasn't, however expecting, this bit of a break. I can tell that we're under a little pressure to cut back a little due to the recession, but in general it's just sort of assumed that everyone takes christmas breaks. I can probably find something to do with myself tomorrow, but after that it's all open as far as what exactly I'm going to do. meirionwen went home with her parents for the next little while and I do have a lot of cleaning/reading to do...but at this point no work. I guess I could learn more about web programming (Spring/XSLT)...but if I'm going to be learning I could be doing vectorcalc/getting ahead in my readings for next sem/etc.
I'm still at work, unsure what to do now. I opted to take the 'use computers to shoot for the quickest' rather than 'actually find something to do with yourself' task---I could come back in the middle of the night and finish basically the rest of my allocated tasks. There's no secretaries here to help out/automate as there usually is. It's me, alone, downtown regina, again.
I could go home to Saskatoon, there's still time for that. There's still a lumberjack in the fridge, but that's a small price to pay to see my family, who are probably working anyway.
But really, despite the warnings of the people around me, this year's christmas has blindsided me. Despite my 78,000+ item to do list, I don't know what to do. Despite my long time dedication to freedom, I've been allocated a slice of freedom and now am unsure how exactly to handle it, so long I have been acting on automatic, just doing my day to day routine, thinking 'in the small'.
Oh and by the way, any of you interested in doing some gratis(or not?) pen testing for the sask government can post here and we can arrange for that. Could be fun/boring, who knows.
But it's pretty much done. We'll be probably starting to deploy the rest of them as soon as the rest of my coworkers come back from their respective holidays. I wasn't, however expecting, this bit of a break. I can tell that we're under a little pressure to cut back a little due to the recession, but in general it's just sort of assumed that everyone takes christmas breaks. I can probably find something to do with myself tomorrow, but after that it's all open as far as what exactly I'm going to do. meirionwen went home with her parents for the next little while and I do have a lot of cleaning/reading to do...but at this point no work. I guess I could learn more about web programming (Spring/XSLT)...but if I'm going to be learning I could be doing vectorcalc/getting ahead in my readings for next sem/etc.
I'm still at work, unsure what to do now. I opted to take the 'use computers to shoot for the quickest' rather than 'actually find something to do with yourself' task---I could come back in the middle of the night and finish basically the rest of my allocated tasks. There's no secretaries here to help out/automate as there usually is. It's me, alone, downtown regina, again.
I could go home to Saskatoon, there's still time for that. There's still a lumberjack in the fridge, but that's a small price to pay to see my family, who are probably working anyway.
But really, despite the warnings of the people around me, this year's christmas has blindsided me. Despite my 78,000+ item to do list, I don't know what to do. Despite my long time dedication to freedom, I've been allocated a slice of freedom and now am unsure how exactly to handle it, so long I have been acting on automatic, just doing my day to day routine, thinking 'in the small'.
Oh and by the way, any of you interested in doing some gratis(or not?) pen testing for the sask government can post here and we can arrange for that. Could be fun/boring, who knows.