Jay McGavren's Journal

Josh Pang just published a site… Check out the skater in the 3D models.

Argh… When I am king I will start a game company and hire all my friends. Here’s the roster:

-Josh: Lead artist -Chihiro: Lead 2D artist -Nate: Design -Eric: Website design (duh) -Jeremy: Motion capture (and QA) -Joe: PR -Diana: Testing -Lenny: Lead developer (hey, I’m king and CEO, and he’ll grow into the position)

People don’t do this in the real world because they would lose their friendships, marriage, and children after the first crunch. But we’re in my fantasy, so it will all work out.

configure make make install

Got Ruby running on the dev Solaris box at work. Couldn’t install to home, as my disk quota there is miniscule, but there’s a tools area where we can basically put anything we want, so that’s where it went. Gems are running, and Rails would be too if I could get the Informix library compiled. (I guess only the 64-bit SDK is installed, and I need 32-bit.)

Working in rSpec proper is a much nicer and more stable experience than using the story runner, that’s for sure. I’ll revisit stories once the API stabilizes and is properly documented.

And they took my red Swingline...

I asked a co-worker who got relocated to a new area how he was liking it. He said “the cubes are a foot smaller”.

I’d be annoyed too, but he sounded like it had really ruined his day.

I know that an analyst isn’t going to be able to discuss projects on the same technical level as the nerds she’s working with. But we’ve got one whose understanding is so poor, she can only speak in generalizations like this:

“What should I label your task as?” “Can I mark items 15-19 complete?” “Is everyone in the meeting in agreement?”

I thought it was just her, but then in this morning’s meeting a program manager (who I thought was more knowledgeable) was doing the same thing. Is this really adding value to the discussion?

Wow - let me see if I’ve got this straight. I’m being asked to tear apart multiple systems to change a client number “because the client is very superstitious and his numbers must start in the 800 series.”

If this guy’s complaining about this, what’s next? Storing all his records on paper because he has a fear of databases?

There’s this concept of “firing the customer” floating around, and I think this would have been a good time to employ it. Of course by now, I’m sure there are signed contracts and it’s too late.

Edit: A co-worker just pointed out this seems like an April Fool’s joke. I don’t think it is, since the e-mail chain started yesterday, but someone is in serious trouble if it is.