Monday was my first day as a developer with Creative Online Media and I must say it’s great to be wearing my coding hat again.
The culture-shock has been enormous: I’m not flooded with emails and phone calls all day, nor battling with bureaucracy and the people are really chilled-out. I don’t know myself!
The adjustment period [...]
I’m spending a few days down the country before I start my new my job catching up with my family, tinkering on some personal projects and just generally “getting my head showered.”
I’m enjoying the break from the daily grind with my only real task being to steel myself for the upcoming change to my 9-5 [...]
I’m preparing myself for my last cycle home from $BIG_COMPANY.
On the whole the experience has been, well, experience: neither good nor bad but worthwhile all the same. I do have gray hairs now though.
Soon, process monitoring, environment management, receiving 700 emails a day and being on-call will be a distant memory. Along with my nemesis [...]
In between support tasks at $BIG_CORP I’ve been slowly reading through O’Reilly’s Learning Python and trying a few things out with the command-line interpreter.
The first script I’ve written that actually does something useful is countdown.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# countdown to 5pm
# 2008 SJW
import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
home = datetime.datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day, 17, 0, 0, 0)
total_secs = (home - [...]
I can hardly believe it, today I'm 6 calendar months into my position as Analyst Programmer at $BIG_CORP.
How time has flown. More surprisingly, I almost seem to have grown accustomed to the stress of working with mission-critical systems and getting called-out in the wee hours of the night.
I couldn’t resist…
During my day job at $BIG_MONEY I’m behind a restrictive corporate firewall and as such can’t ssh to anywhere in the outside world. Which makes me sad. Step in AjaxTerm:
What you are seeing is a screenshot of my screen session for a project I’m working on.
Editing a Perl script with vi in my web browser, [...]
A Windows 2000 workstation, the bloated Office 2003 suite, web-apps that only work with Internet Explorer…
The past 4 weeks have been hectic: I’ve been overwhelmed with new information and I’ve developed a dependence on searching old emails, miscellaneous text files and word-of-mouth information.
There is a plus side though: our team has a wiki. Free software to the rescue once again!
The only problem is that a lot of relevant information is [...]
I started my new job as an Analyst Programmer with Citi today and so far I don’t have a login, my own machine or a permanent pass card and I’m not completely sure what exactly it is I’ll actually be doing but I have mastered the use of the coffee machine. It’s all good [...]