Up at 4:45 am to do a software application release/install, with a colleague. Fortunately, this can be accomplished at home. install went fine without any issues. Our testers/validators are scheduled to start testing at 7. Will have to wait until 8 for them to finish with that before (maybe) heading back to bed for a […]
Software Dev.
Good day at work – probably was coding a new enhancement
Gotta be quick, we’re about to pull into the (Beautiful Downtown) AV transit station. Had a great day today work-wise. Yesterday wasn’t so bad either. In fact, had a great week last week as well. Most of the time work is just ordinary, but there are some days when it’s really fun and not the […]
IOS 12 upgrade on the iPad
Upgraded the iPad to IOS 12.0 BETA yesterday (?) – “everything” is crashing (safari mostly, but sometimes FB, Photos, and a couple of other apps, like my banking app, etc.) Huh – now did I follow their strongly suggested recommendation of backing up the iPad first before upgrading? Who me? Now why would I want […]
Robots
Frigging amazing. I remember how auto workers (in the 80s?) were (rightly so) afraid that these robots would be taking their jobs. It turned out that people were needed to program them (what you just saw was pretty good programming at work), AND people who could fix them when they broke. The only issue I […]
IT departments – different standards, different policy/procedures
It’s interesting: “large” (Fortune 500) companies with IT depts, each of them have their own way of doing things, their own policies and procedures, etc. Unisys was a bit “loosey-goosey” with the app I worked on, allowing the developers to move new code into production (I.e., having privileged / admin access). While, both Wells Fargo […]
