My mind was working pretty good today. I had several really good ideas that would make the amount of code I have to write for my work project less, and provide full functionality.
My body was totaly out of it. This is the first 4 day stretch of work I have done since I got out of the hospital. The pain was pretty bad. It got to a point where I wasn't in good control of my hands. I was shaking.
I would lose my train of thought a lot, especially after 2 o'clock. I wanted to go hoem badly after 4 hours, but I stuck with it, and most of that time was productive, but not at the rate I would like.
Shou Shou cheered me up when I got home.
I watched a stupid claymation film called Star Warp'd. The humor was so bad, it was funny. And I think I got ALL of the sci-fi puns. I would not recommend this film unless you are a true sci-fi junkie and maybe if your judgement is impaired.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
My Employer is their worst enemy
My first computer at work was a real piece. They had juast purchased a competitor, and had not nerged enough beuracracy to be able to give me a computer. I had traqnsfered from the purchasing company to the purchased company.
Eventually I started developing software again after I got a bit healthier. My laptop was so bad, you could not even get the software development tools to run. The laptop freezed up.
I was told that I could not get a new computer for 4 months. Th person in charge probably didn't like me because she was the one tasked with getting me my first computer, and probably had to do a lot of work to get it to me. All she had to do was suggest a different supplier. The company changes suppliers every 3 months. But she was not going to do that for me. I tried to escalate it to my boss, and his response was "A competent engineer would be able to solve that problem". His idea of competence is really different than mine, and probably most people.
So I got stuck with another computer that was just lying around not being used, just like the first one. And there was a reason no one wanteds to use it. It can barely do the job that I am now required to do.
I have been hitting resource limits for months, and have to do a lot of rework to get around them. This week, the interface to EJB beans just stopped working. The real-time connection to the bean failed with a very terse error message. The WWW was no help. There was just too much obsolete content on the web. So I struggled for 2 days.
I finally found 2 configuration files, and specialized editors within the software development tool to edit them.
I did not find a solution. I stumbled on it. While looking at the elements and structure of these XML config files, I noticed that there were XML attribute tags that controlled the frequency in which files were checked to see if any changes had been made to them.
Lotsd of web developers are fast and loose. They like to make changes and see them reflected immediately in a running WebApp. So the industry caters to them. But you had to be able to turn these things off, because it just wastes bandwidth in a production deployment. The code isn't changing hourly in a Production system.
One of the XML attribute tags controlled how often JSP files are scanned to see if any of them had changed. The default value is ONE SECOND. Because of the strict constraints put on the WebApp I am making, I was forced to create hundreds of small JSP files that get pieced together dynaically. I may have over 1000 JSP files. Checking all those files and comparing the current time to the "updated date" to each file probably used up the entire ONE SECOND. No wonder my system was taking so long to react to keystrokes & MOUSE-CLICKS. I turned this off, and the EJB error went away.
I feel like my employer is doing everything possible to make it hard for me to do this job. Sometimes I click on a word in a code file, and it takes 30 SECONDS for the word to become highlighted. It is supposed to be an immediate response.
Eventually I started developing software again after I got a bit healthier. My laptop was so bad, you could not even get the software development tools to run. The laptop freezed up.
I was told that I could not get a new computer for 4 months. Th person in charge probably didn't like me because she was the one tasked with getting me my first computer, and probably had to do a lot of work to get it to me. All she had to do was suggest a different supplier. The company changes suppliers every 3 months. But she was not going to do that for me. I tried to escalate it to my boss, and his response was "A competent engineer would be able to solve that problem". His idea of competence is really different than mine, and probably most people.
So I got stuck with another computer that was just lying around not being used, just like the first one. And there was a reason no one wanteds to use it. It can barely do the job that I am now required to do.
I have been hitting resource limits for months, and have to do a lot of rework to get around them. This week, the interface to EJB beans just stopped working. The real-time connection to the bean failed with a very terse error message. The WWW was no help. There was just too much obsolete content on the web. So I struggled for 2 days.
I finally found 2 configuration files, and specialized editors within the software development tool to edit them.
I did not find a solution. I stumbled on it. While looking at the elements and structure of these XML config files, I noticed that there were XML attribute tags that controlled the frequency in which files were checked to see if any changes had been made to them.
Lotsd of web developers are fast and loose. They like to make changes and see them reflected immediately in a running WebApp. So the industry caters to them. But you had to be able to turn these things off, because it just wastes bandwidth in a production deployment. The code isn't changing hourly in a Production system.
One of the XML attribute tags controlled how often JSP files are scanned to see if any of them had changed. The default value is ONE SECOND. Because of the strict constraints put on the WebApp I am making, I was forced to create hundreds of small JSP files that get pieced together dynaically. I may have over 1000 JSP files. Checking all those files and comparing the current time to the "updated date" to each file probably used up the entire ONE SECOND. No wonder my system was taking so long to react to keystrokes & MOUSE-CLICKS. I turned this off, and the EJB error went away.
I feel like my employer is doing everything possible to make it hard for me to do this job. Sometimes I click on a word in a code file, and it takes 30 SECONDS for the word to become highlighted. It is supposed to be an immediate response.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Ouch
I forgot to create a set of functions for the project at work, and had to do them over the weekend. I have been working for a week now without the spinal cord stimulator. The neuropathy has been continuing in all my joints, but the stimulator blocked all the pain from the hips down.
Oh, do my knees and ankles hurt. The pain keeps me awake. I have asked my PCP for strongwer pain meds for night time.
The craziness at work is overwhelming. The manipulation and lies and lack of attention is dumb-founding
A bag of medication is missing from my apartment. I think the workmen took it. It was just anti-coagulant. I will call to get some more. Maybe the dog took it.
I am trying to be positive, but it is hard.
I haven't confirmed who sent me the Lousie Hays CD of 101 Power THoughts. I am so glad to have it. It helps.
I had a dream that I was singing "You are my Sunshine" to Lily when she was 4 years old, and getting ready for a nap. It was blissful. I had the feeling that she will be a healer, and people would seek her out for help
I had another dream where I was tearing my body apart as payment in order to gain passage through a dungeon. At each juncture, I had to pull another thing off. When I pulled out my teeth, they were as long as fingers.
When I play fetch with Shou Shou, sometimes the ball stops right under her tummy. She will spin around looking for it, sometimes more than once, until one of her feet hit it, and it moves within her range of vision. very funny.
I have been having trouble getting into the office at work. I enter the code into the door lock, but when I twist/pull the handle, it only opens one inch, and gets caught on something. I thought it was the fact that it was cold outside that was the problem. This typically happened at 8Am, so there was not many cars in the parking lot. Finally, it happened after I watched someone get in thru the door. So I experimented. I was the problem. My reaction time was too delayed. I didn't realize this. So now, after I punch in the code, I twist/pull the handle as fast as I can, and I can always open it.
I have been checking my charge codes weekly, and it looks like there is a constant stream of codes, but not much of a buffer. The boss says there should always be 80 charge codes available. THat would be 240 hours, or 6 weeks worth of charge codes. My buffer is around 30 to 40 charge codes. It used to be 60 to 80, but shrank to half its size
Oh, do my knees and ankles hurt. The pain keeps me awake. I have asked my PCP for strongwer pain meds for night time.
The craziness at work is overwhelming. The manipulation and lies and lack of attention is dumb-founding
A bag of medication is missing from my apartment. I think the workmen took it. It was just anti-coagulant. I will call to get some more. Maybe the dog took it.
I am trying to be positive, but it is hard.
I haven't confirmed who sent me the Lousie Hays CD of 101 Power THoughts. I am so glad to have it. It helps.
I had a dream that I was singing "You are my Sunshine" to Lily when she was 4 years old, and getting ready for a nap. It was blissful. I had the feeling that she will be a healer, and people would seek her out for help
I had another dream where I was tearing my body apart as payment in order to gain passage through a dungeon. At each juncture, I had to pull another thing off. When I pulled out my teeth, they were as long as fingers.
When I play fetch with Shou Shou, sometimes the ball stops right under her tummy. She will spin around looking for it, sometimes more than once, until one of her feet hit it, and it moves within her range of vision. very funny.
I have been having trouble getting into the office at work. I enter the code into the door lock, but when I twist/pull the handle, it only opens one inch, and gets caught on something. I thought it was the fact that it was cold outside that was the problem. This typically happened at 8Am, so there was not many cars in the parking lot. Finally, it happened after I watched someone get in thru the door. So I experimented. I was the problem. My reaction time was too delayed. I didn't realize this. So now, after I punch in the code, I twist/pull the handle as fast as I can, and I can always open it.
I have been checking my charge codes weekly, and it looks like there is a constant stream of codes, but not much of a buffer. The boss says there should always be 80 charge codes available. THat would be 240 hours, or 6 weeks worth of charge codes. My buffer is around 30 to 40 charge codes. It used to be 60 to 80, but shrank to half its size
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
THoughts
I am going to put a gel bag I got from a cushion I used to use, and use it underneath the cushion I now use, which is called wondergel. Wondergel stops working once it gets warm. the gel bag can be frozen. I think using them together will allow me to sit longer without switching cushions.
I realized while I was in the hospital that the story concept was not that ground-breaking as everyone thought. The author just took the story-concept from Edgar Rice Burroughs for "The Princess of Mars", and inverted it. Instead of an earthman going to another planet and having super-powers, and man came from another planet to earth and had super-powers as a result.
The concept is "Steal like an artist". Search for it on the Web to find the article.
Right this very moment, I got an idea for a computer-assitance app. My typing has become so bad, I am always hitting extra characters or leaving characters out (because I don't hit the key hard enough). Creating a text substitution app that recognizes that a word is mispelled and looks for a stray keystroke to a neighboring key, and removes it, automatically, while I am typing, would aid many others in my age bracket.
Larry
I realized while I was in the hospital that the story concept was not that ground-breaking as everyone thought. The author just took the story-concept from Edgar Rice Burroughs for "The Princess of Mars", and inverted it. Instead of an earthman going to another planet and having super-powers, and man came from another planet to earth and had super-powers as a result.
The concept is "Steal like an artist". Search for it on the Web to find the article.
Right this very moment, I got an idea for a computer-assitance app. My typing has become so bad, I am always hitting extra characters or leaving characters out (because I don't hit the key hard enough). Creating a text substitution app that recognizes that a word is mispelled and looks for a stray keystroke to a neighboring key, and removes it, automatically, while I am typing, would aid many others in my age bracket.
Larry
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