making things suck less

Filled in for the PMO representative on the all SCRUM meetings today. Will do so again on Monday. We keep notes from the daily standups, so that’s what I did.
Spent the rest of the morning after that looking at an issue that’s currently affecting the field. Found a fix (just configuration) and passed that on [...]

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Work most of the day. Today is my one year anniversary with Pizza Hut. SCRUMs in the morning. Paired with another developer between SCRUMs and planning meeting in the afternoon. Installed OpenSUSE 10.3 on my pilot test box. Got much farther in getting the software to build, but still some issues to work out.
Started on [...]

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Up and off to work. Poked at our software to try to get it to build on OpenSUSE 11.0. Gave up at the end of the day. That box will get OpenSUSE 10.3 tomorrow. gcc 4.3.1 was just not going to work with our 10+ year old code.
Home in the evening, spent a couple of [...]

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Up and off to work. Demo of NX as a remote support tool for the restaurant helpdesk in the morning. Well received. Spent most of the day working on getting OpenSUSE 11.0 installed on a box that I’m using for a pilot project. We don’t work natively on Linux boxes at work (yet) unless we’re [...]

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Up and off the work close the normal time. Ran late trying to get everything together. Gave an intro to TDD presentation in the morning, seemed well received.
Home late due to talking with a colleague about software testing. Spent the evening playing with S. and reading Chapterhouse: Dune.

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Slept in again. I love weekends. Leftover birthday cake for breakfast. Can’t go wrong there. Poked at more new bugzilla stuff. Might be ready soon.
Home Depot and Lowe’s in the afternoon looking for cabinet pulls and knobs. Found some we liked, decided on one after we got home and got to see them on the [...]

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Up late in the morning (8am; normal is 6:30am). Bath for S. while C. is off to the store.
Worked on the new bugzilla a bit. Sent email to sysadmin@kde to see about getting bz database dumps so I can do testing on the data conversion.
Off to Mom’s in the late afternoon for birthday/housewarming party. [...]

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work. fixed more bugs in the GUI order entry.
Doctor for S. in the mid-morning - everything checked out fine. Looks like we got a normal healthy baby.
Home late in the evening due to the doctor’s appointment. Had to restore iPod’s software since it decided to go bonkers sometime before my leaving work. Dealt [...]

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