Andy Kopciuch's Blog
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
I lied!
Rich was somewhat angered by my post that he "turned 40". Apparently, some people felt it their duty to inform him of the headlines. I must retract that statement ... he's "thirtysomething"! ;)
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The Upcoming Good
There is so much going on right now! Every industry is pushing capacity, which in turn means people like me in the IT world are pushed beyond capacity sometimes. I'm not going to complain about "too much work", because it's better than not enough. Instead I would like to focus on all the upcoming events in the near future.
Bikerpak - is going so strong. It is motorcycle season season. It is a challenge to keep up with requests for features / issues some days, but production is good. I am working on implementing the new set of rates. We already automated abstract requests, and work flow. AJ and I rolled the ball on the numbers audit, and getting that looked after. I am also looking into doing VIN decoding on the vehicles in real time to avoid data entry mistakes (wrong vehicle year or engine class was entered).
L&Y - Is also exciting. We are planning a long term (3-4 months) of development on the toolkit, and "facebooking" it. Including modularizing everything (Applications / Applets / Screens) ... that's our names for our design. I also have the mail processing in proof of concept stage. Kevin is working on some container / panel designs for things. Lots of planning, and slowly starting to implement things. Kris resigned to head up north somewhere. We are on the hunt for a new IT person there. The Power-soft guys were in town for convention, and we worked through some issues with them. I was out tonight for drinks with them, and AJ came along, and then Serge. It was good to see the Jevco folks. Apparently he has same "plans" for us. So says AJ. We'll find out about that coming up.
Fortress - Ian has some skills to help out, and take load off of Ray mostly, and me to some extent. Lots of work being done all the time. I sat in on Ray's Asterisk presentation, and learned all about the PBX world. We moved the CN servers offsite, and minus a couple of really minor glitches, it went super smooth. the RAM upgrade was fine, and things are rolling along peachy keen!
Planet - I worked all long weekend adding in the pricing features. I did an initial review with Jonathan, and went back and changed some interfaces around after I was finished with the first swing. A couple of minor features left, but that will come. We are planning the testing party coming up in a couple of weeks. I reworked the testing suite to be way more intelligent, and removed about 5 major steps, and the need for 3 files for creating a new test! I want to roll that into Pantheon at some point. I also rolled a release, and documented the procedure for future reference.
Personal - My sister is applying for some jobs. I helped her out with her resume last week. I have not talked with her since, but I hope she gets what she wants. My mom is selling the car apparently. I've been keeping low key. The playoff beard is gone since the Pens beat the Flyers. I'm geared up for a poker tournament tomorrow night. I'm chillin in the early morning right now. Maybe kick back. My mind is not into coding right now. I need to re-charge the batts, as I have 5 days to get the rates finished and tested.
ta, ¶ 5:22:00 AM 0 comments
Bikerpak - is going so strong. It is motorcycle season season. It is a challenge to keep up with requests for features / issues some days, but production is good. I am working on implementing the new set of rates. We already automated abstract requests, and work flow. AJ and I rolled the ball on the numbers audit, and getting that looked after. I am also looking into doing VIN decoding on the vehicles in real time to avoid data entry mistakes (wrong vehicle year or engine class was entered).
L&Y - Is also exciting. We are planning a long term (3-4 months) of development on the toolkit, and "facebooking" it. Including modularizing everything (Applications / Applets / Screens) ... that's our names for our design. I also have the mail processing in proof of concept stage. Kevin is working on some container / panel designs for things. Lots of planning, and slowly starting to implement things. Kris resigned to head up north somewhere. We are on the hunt for a new IT person there. The Power-soft guys were in town for convention, and we worked through some issues with them. I was out tonight for drinks with them, and AJ came along, and then Serge. It was good to see the Jevco folks. Apparently he has same "plans" for us. So says AJ. We'll find out about that coming up.
Fortress - Ian has some skills to help out, and take load off of Ray mostly, and me to some extent. Lots of work being done all the time. I sat in on Ray's Asterisk presentation, and learned all about the PBX world. We moved the CN servers offsite, and minus a couple of really minor glitches, it went super smooth. the RAM upgrade was fine, and things are rolling along peachy keen!
Planet - I worked all long weekend adding in the pricing features. I did an initial review with Jonathan, and went back and changed some interfaces around after I was finished with the first swing. A couple of minor features left, but that will come. We are planning the testing party coming up in a couple of weeks. I reworked the testing suite to be way more intelligent, and removed about 5 major steps, and the need for 3 files for creating a new test! I want to roll that into Pantheon at some point. I also rolled a release, and documented the procedure for future reference.
Personal - My sister is applying for some jobs. I helped her out with her resume last week. I have not talked with her since, but I hope she gets what she wants. My mom is selling the car apparently. I've been keeping low key. The playoff beard is gone since the Pens beat the Flyers. I'm geared up for a poker tournament tomorrow night. I'm chillin in the early morning right now. Maybe kick back. My mind is not into coding right now. I need to re-charge the batts, as I have 5 days to get the rates finished and tested.
ta, ¶ 5:22:00 AM 0 comments
