The ever helpful IT folks at work decided to upgrade our issue tracking system. The new system removed the two buttons I use most often, and replaced them with a 6 step manual process.
Gee, thanks.
It’s not like they added new choices at each of those six steps, there is still only one valid workflow, and it won’t tell you what the workflow is, you have to have already known beforehand what the two buttons did under the covers, or you are screwed.
They say you can get used to anything.
We got new phones at work over the weekend, and with the new system, the main screen of the phone is backlit at all times, whereas the old phones, they only lit up when you were actively using them. As result, each time I see the new phone’s screen out of the corner of my eye, I think a call has come through, but I haven’t managed to hear the ring.
Perhaps in time, I will adjust my ‘notice that’ filter, but given how I still think the sleeve printing on my Horse/House/Tofu shirt, is some sort of schmutz, and try to brush it off, we shall see. I don’t wear that shirt every day.
My boss at work is moving to another state, and will be working remotely from monday on. So, we are setting up facetime betwixt my ipad and her mac, in preparation for the big day. And ever since, my ipad is now making little notification sounds, even though it’s completely muted, and everything I can find about facetime in settings is set to off.
Most annoying is that I can’t see any reason for it to be making the sounds; I’m not getting call requests every five seconds, but it’s making the noise that often.
At least killing the app seems to have stopped them.
UPDATE: Killing the app didn’t make any difference. I finally tracked down that somehow, making a facetime call, turned on email notifications for gmail. WTF?
I’m back from my chocolate run, and want to grab a quick bite to eat, before I continue work on the Star Destroyer, so I stop in the nearest pub, only to find out, after ordering, that a bunch of the sales folks from work are having a little get together there as well.
It’s a little odd, listening to their conversations, to think about how they make an order of magnitude more than I do. Talking about the houses they rent out, $100,000 opportunity costs, spending a few grand of their own money to close a deal…we live in different worlds, though we work for the same place.
Their take on the financial side of the company was enlightening.
After going to all the trouble of figuring out Selenium and JUnit, it turns out I was mis-remembering, and it should have been TestNG for my testing framework. d’ohwell, it shouldn’t be too hard to move from one to the other.
Finally figured out all my Selenium issues. Well, not all of them, in that I still don’t get the Grid system, but I at least know enough about it to know I don’t need it, so that problem is solved in its own way too.
As of now, I’ve got three remote drones, one for IE, one for Firefox, and one for Chrome. I can execute JUnit tests against all three targets, for the webservice running elsewhere.
Finally, I can start thinking about what I actually want to test, without worrying about if I can make it happen.
Less than 10, out of hundreds potential, are here at work today, but of course, the guy with an office directly across the hall from me is one of those 10, so I can’t just leave my door open and really crank up the tunes.
Oh well.
At least I finally got ChromeDriver to work, when everything is local. Still can’t figure out what’s wrong with my remote system. One day at a time.
Yesterday, looking through my budget, I’m seeing a very tight future without some sort of income boost, or cost cutting measures.
Today, my team lead announces she is moving out of state and will be a remote employee, giving up some of her current responsibilities. I of course am filled with the likely naive hope that whomever ends up with said responsibilities will end up with a commensurate bump in income, and said someone will be me. I guess I should figure out what kind of baked goods the managers in charge of deciding what happens next, likes. =)
I’d been kinda worried earlier today, comparing my 4 lines of addition to the document about to be reviewed this afternoon, to other people’s much larger contributions to their equivalent documents. Was wondering what I was missing, that I just couldn’t find more to say. Then I looked at the whole-project design diagram again, and realized the piece I’m working on is proportionally smaller to those other documents I was using for reference, so really I’m in better shape than I thought.
I’d like to think the holiday-fog will soon be lifting from my brain, and the how-far-have-I-yet-to-go-blues will be memory soon enough after.
Today is going to be a bad day at our office, for anyone on a diet. We’ve already had bagels and fruit for breakfast, plus the VP wandering around the office with a little red cart full of donuts, and there’s still lunch and the 3pm party yet to go.
I’m glad I did an extra set of crunches this morning. Not enough to make a difference, really, but still a feel-good-exercise =p
