Friday, July 15, 2005
FC4, Stampeded & Getting Fired
BUSY BUSY BUSY!!
I've been so busy lately, I have not even had time to write for a while. I had made the trek out to Victoria once again. Powersoft has moved into a new office. The renovations are spectacular. I have my own office on the second floor. There is a balcony with a barbecue, and the foozeball table seems to attract a great deal of attention.
I was given a computer to install Linux on. :D A P2 350, but thankfully it was loaded with 392 RAM. I ended up installing FC4 on it. Mostly to try it out, and because I forgot how slow the machine actually was and got tired of waiting for SuSE to get going. I had left my office during the FC4 install. I'm quite happy with it. I have a basic KDE setup, and configured. There seem to be no problems running my development. I do however spend most of day inside Konsole, and use Konqueror, and Firefox for testing. So a fairly minimalist use. I do seem to remember some issues making use of PostgreSQL ... which is surprising considering RHDB is PG. It installed no problems from source though. Back to my days of compiling. I was quite impressed with the speed increase to using yum. It seemed faster on a 350mHz box than FC2 running on my AMD 2400+. I was happy.
The productivity was good for myself. Mik and I had an entire development environment in Mac OSX created. Development, and pre-production machines. I had written several startup, and installation scripts to aid in setup. I created a test website for all new products. I also fixed some bugs, and streamlined the web site file structures. We did run into an IIS incompatibility issue right before Mik left, but we'll sort that out next time.
Completely exhausted, I flew back to Calgary to find my sister who was in town for the Calgary Stampede. We went to the L&Y pancake breakfast, and hung out for a while. We went shopping for cowboy boots ... no dice though. We ate a great supper, and came back to my apt to chill for the evening. Thursday we went down to the Stampede grounds. We got tickets for the grandstand and watched the afternoon rodeo. It was quite entertaining. We had some really good balcony seats. Our day continued eating corn dogs and playing the carny side show games. I won a GIANT spongebob squarepants prize, and Diana totally kicked my ass at the watergun game. She took home a very large Oscar The Grouch. We won some other smaller prizes, but those two were the show.
Today I had a lunch / business meeting at 11:00. Prior to that I had to fire one of my clients. Continually they are an extremely annoying client. Always demanding immediate attention, and their problems are of course more important that anything else I could possibly be doing. I had had enough of begging to get my invoices paid by them. With two outstanding bills, and returning home to no cheques, I gave them until the end of the week. I sent a notification, asking very bluntly for my money, and stated my company was no longer interested in their business. It sucks getting fired. I am severely less stressed out now. When will people learn. The rest of business is very good. The outlook for me is quite pleasant. We'll get into that some other day though.
Supposed to be going out tonight. Don't know if I feel like it though. It's kind of nice to camp out at home. My sister is at the Stampede again with Rich and A.J. and his family. She is not alone, but I suppose I should venture out and find them eventually. Oh deer ... the night is young. ΒΆ 7:50:00 PM
I've been so busy lately, I have not even had time to write for a while. I had made the trek out to Victoria once again. Powersoft has moved into a new office. The renovations are spectacular. I have my own office on the second floor. There is a balcony with a barbecue, and the foozeball table seems to attract a great deal of attention.
I was given a computer to install Linux on. :D A P2 350, but thankfully it was loaded with 392 RAM. I ended up installing FC4 on it. Mostly to try it out, and because I forgot how slow the machine actually was and got tired of waiting for SuSE to get going. I had left my office during the FC4 install. I'm quite happy with it. I have a basic KDE setup, and configured. There seem to be no problems running my development. I do however spend most of day inside Konsole, and use Konqueror, and Firefox for testing. So a fairly minimalist use. I do seem to remember some issues making use of PostgreSQL ... which is surprising considering RHDB is PG. It installed no problems from source though. Back to my days of compiling. I was quite impressed with the speed increase to using yum. It seemed faster on a 350mHz box than FC2 running on my AMD 2400+. I was happy.
The productivity was good for myself. Mik and I had an entire development environment in Mac OSX created. Development, and pre-production machines. I had written several startup, and installation scripts to aid in setup. I created a test website for all new products. I also fixed some bugs, and streamlined the web site file structures. We did run into an IIS incompatibility issue right before Mik left, but we'll sort that out next time.
Completely exhausted, I flew back to Calgary to find my sister who was in town for the Calgary Stampede. We went to the L&Y pancake breakfast, and hung out for a while. We went shopping for cowboy boots ... no dice though. We ate a great supper, and came back to my apt to chill for the evening. Thursday we went down to the Stampede grounds. We got tickets for the grandstand and watched the afternoon rodeo. It was quite entertaining. We had some really good balcony seats. Our day continued eating corn dogs and playing the carny side show games. I won a GIANT spongebob squarepants prize, and Diana totally kicked my ass at the watergun game. She took home a very large Oscar The Grouch. We won some other smaller prizes, but those two were the show.
Today I had a lunch / business meeting at 11:00. Prior to that I had to fire one of my clients. Continually they are an extremely annoying client. Always demanding immediate attention, and their problems are of course more important that anything else I could possibly be doing. I had had enough of begging to get my invoices paid by them. With two outstanding bills, and returning home to no cheques, I gave them until the end of the week. I sent a notification, asking very bluntly for my money, and stated my company was no longer interested in their business. It sucks getting fired. I am severely less stressed out now. When will people learn. The rest of business is very good. The outlook for me is quite pleasant. We'll get into that some other day though.
Supposed to be going out tonight. Don't know if I feel like it though. It's kind of nice to camp out at home. My sister is at the Stampede again with Rich and A.J. and his family. She is not alone, but I suppose I should venture out and find them eventually. Oh deer ... the night is young. ΒΆ 7:50:00 PM
