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The (big, fancy, secret) project I work on moved to Production this week. The test cycle was a joke, but half a dozen people inside the company have been using it and I’ve been getting the feedback I need to keep the application free of bugs. So the site has launched and people can log [...]

Since my project just got pushed to Test and we have to wait for them now, I’ve found myself with some time at work. So the boss’s boss tasked me and J to another project…
The “other project” is an inventory system under a totally different group (Not even in the E-Commerce division). I’m still trying [...]

A project at my company goes through these phases:
1. Analysis, Design, Documentation
2. Development
3. Testing
4. Production
I just finished my big, fancy, secret project’s development cycle and moved into testing. Now I get to sit back and work a relaxed 40-hour week while the testers get all uppity and excited and overworked, while I grace their screens [...]

I struggled with this problem for the better part of a day. The problem is this: I had a Page that needed to push a ZIP file out to a User, programatically, based on information acquired from SQL. Normally this would be fairly simple, but the file isn’t on the web server, and it can’t [...]

Tomorrow is the end of the Development cycle for my (big, fancy, secret) project at work. I ran into some interesting complications and learned a few things in the process:
1. How to write a Windows Service
2. Windows Services don’t like regular winform timers, you have to use a System.Timers.Timer(). Otherwise, it’ll compile and run, but [...]

The next release of the big, fancy, secret project I’m working on at work is due within two weeks. By “working on”, of course, I mean “Rewriting from scratch, in six weeks, what took the last guy 18 months; only now with object orientation and a much improved UI”. I completed two major segments of [...]

Today at work I was asked about the lack of “cute pictures” in a technical document I wrote regarding the planned creation of the next phase of the (big, fancy, secret) project I work on. Specifically, the boss wanted Visio flowcharts and screenshots of something that doesn’t exist. I mentioned it earlier today.
Obviously, you [...]

I handed in a design document for the next release of the (big, secret, fancy) project I’m working on. The boss wanted to know why there were no “cute pictures”, meaning Visio flowcharts. The answer was simply that based on the previous release’s documentation, we know that the documentation will change so wildly that there’s [...]

J found a great Dell server on Craigslist for about 10% of its resale price. It doesn’t have near the storage space of mine, so he plans to use it for a web/sql/app/vpn server in the meantime (And possibly as a Backup Domain Controller, if we can get the damned thing joined to the local [...]

The site was down for two days. You may have noticed the errors. Y’see, what happened is that I got a package via FedEx. New stuff doesn’t combine well with my inborn need for instant gratification (Thank you, Internet Age). The package contained a motherboard (Asus M2V) and CPU (AMD Athalon 64 4200+ Dual-Core; what [...]