New people, new work!
Far busier week this week than last. Luckily we had a new guy join us Jon who has picked up the job very swiftly. He seems to have settled in nicely and is fitting in well.
That meant that with I was able to work more closely with some client engineers, and our own Senior Architects on some trouble shooting and problem analysis. It was very interesting albeit a little intense at times but ultimately very useful. It was good to get an insight into the minds of the people we’re working with because if we know how they think, we can learn how they build. Maybe? Who knows? But it was certainly useful and a lot of the stuff we looked through will be useful for the next time we see a similar issue. It was pretty hard-going and kind of relentless on two separate days. However, we fixed some stuff and analysed some other stuff which I guess means it was a success!
I’ve been assigned some homework - namely to read a book about MySQL which is going in my weekend bag (joy). But it’s good to have a sort of structure, not enough free time, or free time spent doing other stuff when no-one requires anything from you kind of sucks. Teaching yourself something you don’t immediately need to know, or don’t realise you need to know, can sometimes be difficult because you don’t have the motivation necessary.
That said, I totally forgot to read chapter 2 of GTD which means I have to read *both* chapters before next Friday’s session. Today’s session was good despite that. We were talking about the actual ways in which you organise yourself and the processes you need to put in place to keep yourself organised. Looks like a good tool, I can really see how it can change the whole way you deal with a workload. We shall see soon, after next Friday I think we’re all going to be putting it into practice! That will be definitely be interesting to review…
A.O.B. Been revamping/rewriting some website stuff as well as sketching out some ideas for a potential customer. I’m going to try to keep on top of my various websites, keep them trim etc. If you’re interested (though they’re all works in progress) http://salixsys.org so yeah, don’t hate :P
Have a good weekend,
Willow xx
