I know I don't post here much Michael but thanks you just made my day Michael *snicker* write beautiful code....*giggle* not have to re-work other people's crap....I've become Jaded I suppose... :-p
Gregory Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Dinowitz wrote: ><CF_Rant> >I have to let it out a bit. >I spent today home resting and playing with code. What type of code? Low level >optimization of Blackstone templates. Learned a lot of stuff. Found different >ways to do things that are tighter than what I was doing before. Talked with >people at MM about what I found. All in all, it was great. I loved it. It was >what I was meant to do. Investigation, documentation, optimization and creation >of new things. In being so happy with what I was doing the realization that I >just am not enthusiastic about my job hit me. >The work I'm actually getting paid for is to make mothernature.com work, >upgrade >their systems, etc. Nice work and all, but I'm steadily losing my enthusiasm >for >it as it's really kind of grunt work. I spent yesterday rewriting Raymond's >bugtracker into a project tracker for them. >"Why not just get a different package?" >"Because we're already using this and it shouldn't take you any time to convert >the whole thing to DB and add in the new features." >Riiiiight. It wasn't so hard to convert, but took a little time. Why? Because >it >was grunt work and I hate grunt work. A trained monkey can convert a spectra >like bugtracker to use DB. This is basically what I have to deal with every >day. >Grunt work with no real intelligence needed. Bug fixes to a code base written >by >someone who should be shot. A publicly traded company sitting on a code base >that 'works', but is so convoluted that it takes more time to hunt down a bug >(through dozens of templates per page) than to fix it. >Why can't I get a job where I can do what I want to do. I want to write. I want >to investigate. I want to write clean, tight code from scratch that is >beautiful. I want to live in the art and beauty that is simple, tight code. >Today I rewrote the article display page for FA (final version). Do you know >it's about 6 lines of code. >I want to do that for everything. I want to let everyone know what I'm doing. I >want to do so much and I'm stuck working. >Yep, the rant is all about work which is foolish. I know people who are out of >work. I was out of work for a nice sized chunk of time. I should not complain, >especially as I have mouths to feed. I just want more out of life. I want to >help people. I want to enjoy what I do. I want to build all the cool stuff >that's sitting in my head. I want to be cloned! ></CF_Rant> >-- >Michael Dinowitz >House of Fusion >http://www.houseoffusion.com >Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:138641 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
