I knew that the start of my employment was going to be a bit rough. The application is huge and constantly growing. The code base is complex. And there is little documentation on how everything works. You have to ask the guys who built it what everything does. (one of said head gents is the guy I’m working under)
Aside from a little trip out to Ozona Texas to retrieve (and return the next day) a server, I’ve been working on a project that has been in the ‘would be great, but not essential’ category. Not a major project, but it is a great introduction to the system. Today I finished it. It works, it has my own thought processes behind the scenes, and it is good. Ok, it will be looked at by a few of the high up guys to see if there could be improvements. Fun thing is, this code is likely to be put into production in a few client sites by the end of the week. Just out to a few places that will use it. Any issues with the program will be discovered and, I’m sure, will be handed off to me for solving. Personally, I don’t think I’ll be getting any calls about it beyond ‘how do i’ type calls.
Tomorrow I’ll be moving onto something completely different. And to think that I haven’t even gotten a chance to fill out all the paperwork about being an employee yet. (but I have gotten my first paycheck; yea, that’s nice)
It sounds like things are going well…. Keep up the good work. 🙂