Anyone else working on this bank holiday?

[BrilloPad]

Got to be in at noon. I have 3 issues on my plate - after that I hope to be filling up the counting thread for the rest of the afternoon/evening.

[doodab]

Not I.

I am sat in front of my computer though, just tinkering with things and randomly drifting through the interwebs thinking of wasting some money on a 500 page textbook I'll probably never read. This seems to be my default behaviour these days....

[Bacchus]

Working from Bacchus tower today which is not too bad.

Will try to intersperse cutting edge software (ha!) with cutting the grass (c:

[doodab]

Will try to intersperse cutting edge software (ha!) with cutting the grass (c:

You could also try pushing the limits of gardening as a metaphor for software development e.g.

Vegetable patch = source code control system
Weeding = refactoring
Back of the shed = code nobody dares to touch cos they don't know how it works and don't really care to find out

[mudskipper]

You could also try pushing the limits of gardening as a metaphor for software development e.g.

Vegetable patch = source code control system
Weeding = refactoring
Back of the shed = code nobody dares to touch cos they don't know how it works and don't really care to find out

Lying on the sunbed = waiting for code to compile

[Bacchus]

Hmmm...

Digging: debugging someone else's code
Leaning on a for looking at the results of your hard work: smoke-testing
Sitting back and having a beer whilst the vegetables grow: contracting (c:

I think the vegetable patch is where the BAs sit though...

[Mich the Tester]

[norrahe]

There's no bank holiday here

[alreadypacked]

Had a 3 day week last week.

[Mich the Tester]

There's no bank holiday here

Indeed; somehow the gummint here don't think the liberation of NL is important enough for a holiday. A lot of people are free here in the sticks though.