Holy Code Search Batman!

krugle

Excellent code search engine. No more hopping from script site to open source site, etc... looking for some project that might have what I need. This search engine proposes to show me the code right off the bat, so I can see if it is indeed what I want. THEN I can download the project/code. The tagging will be extremely helpful in cases where a project team is researching something (say, cms) and one search could be tagged for the whole team to share and investigate. Suh-weet!

Happens every time

I swear it must be some law of programming. If you create a project, do whatever testing you can, place it up for your client to use/TEST in advance of their big presentation deadline, your client will proceed to ignore it. For months. Then this law states that one month before their deadline, they will suddenly begin using it, and a flurry of reports about things not working right will come in (some of which are "It would be great if it did this..."). All needing to be fixed well in advance of their deadline.

{sigh}

Virtual scream

I think I will figure out a way to add a virtual scream to every project I have out there, embedded within the link "Click to report a bug". Not like that would stop anyone, but it might make me feel better.

I should also add something that redirects them if they report something as a 'bug' that is really 'something they thought should be built into the design but wasn't and now they expect it to be there because they were thinking it should do this the whole time, even though they never said a word in the countless project planning meetings you had or hundreds of emails sent before, therefore the program has a bug in it'.

Redirect them to the IRS page or something.

First post

This is my first post on my new blogger site. A quick introduction is probably in order.

I'm a Programmer. I use a capital P, because with the craziness I sometimes deal with I think it deserves a capital P. My job is programming web and other database applications for a University library. I really do enjoy my work - it's challenging, although stressful at times. I'm the only programmer on staff, so keeping up with projects can be a bit of a trial. I work out of a small office (referred to affectionately by my co-workers as 'the closet in the back'). That's room 31E. Complete with a 'load-bearing' whiteboard that has ER diagrams burned into it. I also have a plant. A fake ficus. Somehow I feel it brightens the place up. I could be wrong. Turns out I am a lot.