Good Day

I have finished my current project at work and released it to the QA peeps… I am pretty sure it is solid this time, much more so than last time when I had about 3 weeks less than I needed to finish… This is the project I mentioned a few weeks ago…. They rushed me and rushed me to finish it by the end of June and then pushed it back anyway to add more features. Fortunately, when they asked me how long it would take I gave them a completely unrealistic estimate giving me plenty of time to go back and fix all the bad code I shat out in the during June when I was rushing. Now I have finished cleaning things up (somewhat), added the features they wanted (which honestly make the product better), and still managed to come in before the obscene estimate I gave them before. =) I don’t like doing that, but they really fucked me over with my last deadline so I needed to make sure I had time to make things right before adding all the new features they wanted.

In addition, I walked into a nasty bug report that took me from 9:30 until 3pm to fix, and it was once again a MS problem… This was in the DDE code that I wrote months ago and haven’t look at since…. It ended up being two distinct problems, both manifesting themselves differently, but some massaging of our registry keys and everything got better quickly. This would have been a much tougher fix if I had cheaped out on the design of the DDE code, but since it was fairly robust, I was able to just use a different method of accomplishing something and I didnt’ need to write anything…

After all this, though, my brain is pretty damn fried…

Amy is coming up tonight for the weekend, but she won’t be rolling into town until late. With her visit, my trip to Rochester/Syracuse next weekend, and the my trip to Vermont the weekend after I am going to be pretty busy….