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Monday, March 12, 2007

First day at first contract

And it was a good one. The people were all nice (that I spoke to), the coding standards were sensible, the code was laid out nicely and the project structure was good. The people I spoke to all seem competent and (just as importantly) helpful. They use FogBugz rather than TestTrackPro. The meeting was short and focused. I signed off three bugs already. There was another contractor started today too, who also had a tablet PC with him (I like him already!).

OK, they were the good things, but there were a couple of not-so-good things. I found some HTML markup (<b> tags) in the business logic layer, and a div's background image that was a complete rounded box - i.e. fixed size, not a separate top and bottom, so increasing the browser's text size pushed the text outside the box. I'd be worried about myself if I couldn't find something though. Oh, and SourceSafe.

It's a little bit annoying being a new boy and having to ask all the basic questions about where things are, what to put in check-in comments, bug reports etc, but I'll soon be over that.

I feel at home already, but then I do whenever I move house or go on holiday. I'm going to miss some of my old colleagues, but I'll see them at the reunion soon.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Simon

With any new job - It's like your first day at school! Like a rock face you don't know where the next hand-hold is? You only need look-up to see it, or freak yourself out? That's when friends are handy. :-)

Lose the baggage!
http://www.3drealms.com/gethired.html

Just rebuilt an old Win-98 PC - I should blog this...

And then read this:
"We take the work/life balance issue seriously. We believe the best work gets done when people aren't overworked and are happy with what they're doing, so we never crunch; never work a weekend; never work past six. That doesn't make us lazy, we've just found that quality software and great ideas aren't born through lost weekends and late night pizzas at our desk."

I want one of these:
http://www.eurofighter.com/Images/Video/highres_Type%20Acceptance1.mpg


Keep dreaming,
James

Nice games:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/home/home.htm

March 13, 2007 12:00 AM  

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