I don’t really give a tulip any more

[Spacecadet]

Please say you're going to become a climatologist… please, please..

Proffessor of english, hes a master with the punctuation and apostrophies don't you know

[ratewhore]

Please say you're going to become a climatologist… please, please..

I should imagine the road has many a winding turn as well...

[Mich the Tester]

Indeed, many use coke cans, but the advantage of pot noodle tubs is they can be stacked and hence take up less space.

Just hope everyone on the team is as good with the alphabet when checking in and out a file...

Locking a branch would be ramming a knitting needle through a whole stack.

Joking aside, I've seen datacenters of companies who claim to be CMMi level 5 (boring methodology alert!) and ITIL and ISO9001 compliant where back up tapes are piled up between old pizza boxes and you have to wipe off the mouldy tomato sauce if you want to use the tape. I was shocked the first time, but very little surprises me these days.

[Cliphead]

I've had a fun time in over 30 years in IT. I work at home messing about with other people's servers and Plan B is up and running and about to take over completely.

Plan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.

Then we launch to the public.

Boomed

[Pondlife]

Plan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.

Then we launch to the public.

Boomed

Congrats!!!

[Platypus]

Plan B is up and running and about to take over completely.

Very well done!

My own plan B is likely to fold early in the new year, after three year's trying.

But I won't give up trying something new.

Now that I spend more time using Word than using vi, the fun has gone out of IT, for me.

[Lockhouse]

I've had a fun time in over 30 years in IT. I work at home messing about with other people's servers and Plan B is up and running and about to take over completely.

Plan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.

Then we launch to the public.

Boomed

Respec'

[expat]

Now that I spend more time using Word than using vi, the fun has gone out of IT, for me.

I don't. Some people do find my letters a bit trs though.

[sasguru]

I've had a fun time in over 30 years in IT. I work at home messing about with other people's servers and Plan B is up and running and about to take over completely.

Plan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.

Then we launch to the public.

Boomed

Congrats! That looks like like a proper business unlike atwat's.

[minestrone]

10 years for me. It used to be good fun, or more it used to be about the software. Your boss would have been a programmer for some time and he would dish out some work to you knowing what was involved, you would get it done, do a build, test then deploy.

Now the 'process' has taken over, weekly builds, daily builds, burn ups, burn downs, continuous integration, more unit tests than code etc. Nobody knows why these are really needed but it has become excepted practice that they are needed by a layer of middle managers who have came from some non technical degree. I had to explain to my manager who had been running java projects for 5 years what a JVM was, it’s not that she did not understand what it was she just had never heard of it before.

A phrase I hear many times in these departments is “well that is what the consultants told us on the course”. There is a total belief that putting a non technical person on an agile training course with a one size fits all way of doing things is the answer.

These consultants just make up stuff in order that they can get another round of training courses. It is in their interests to make agile more complicated and nobody will ever question them because they don’t have a clue.

Agile is not a software methodology anymore it is a concept that is sold in units of ‘training days’ to people who have no idea what software is.

One example is the guy next to me is refining the company’s agile process for the last 2 months but he has an OO Basics print out on the wall beside his desk, he is group architect as well.