Wow. I was blown away. All the VPs got together this week cooked all the employee's breakfast. Hey it was Bisquick Shake & Pour but it was super tasty, in a processed kind of way. I've never seen such a controlled form of chaos in my life, must be the fact that Henry was not there. He did say at the last company meeting (from his cell phone) that he would be there leading the charge, but apparently some Red Sox game was playing so decided to stay on the East Coast to watch it. He loves them Sox.
I chatted to Geek Babe, you know, her best advice on Spring dependency injection and so forth. I think she recognizes talent if you know what I mean.
One of the teams has started a bake-and-bring weekly event. Apparently, you bake something and bring it into the office. Sounds totally yuk to me. Why would I want somebodies homemade cookies, coffee cake, etc. when I can just go to Starbucks and get the real thing. Don't people know that home style stuff is so like my grandmother would do?
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (down one from last week)
Shots : 3 x Tequila (same as last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (4 x Una Mass, 1 x Thai)
Weight : 171 lbs
Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Our mobile product rocks!
Stacy, who runs the mobile team, gave an overview of the product at the company meeting this week. OMG, we are going to kill that market! I had just not thought about the horizontal synergy that mobile gives the digital butler. Its just everything, everywhere and at anytime. We rock!
Stacy walked through the product roadmap. We are looking to support the 62xx and 65xx range of Blackberry's late this year. It makes total sense to support technology that has been out in the market place for quite a few years. That way its prevalent because all the business dudes already have them rather than support a new or current model which nobody has. Its really pushing our engineers, those models have no memory and use a version of Java that's older than my mommy. Those platforms are tough to crack, which explains why the team have been at it for some time.
The Asian dude with glasses asked what about the iPhone. The answer made total sense. We are aimed at the business market and not the consumer market so we need to support business. It kind of sucks because I can't show my friends and family the digital butler on my iPhone and looks like I will not be able to for a bunch of time. I'm sure Henry is right about the strategy.
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 3 bottles (same as last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequila (down one from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x Pizza)
Weight : 171 lbs
Stacy walked through the product roadmap. We are looking to support the 62xx and 65xx range of Blackberry's late this year. It makes total sense to support technology that has been out in the market place for quite a few years. That way its prevalent because all the business dudes already have them rather than support a new or current model which nobody has. Its really pushing our engineers, those models have no memory and use a version of Java that's older than my mommy. Those platforms are tough to crack, which explains why the team have been at it for some time.
The Asian dude with glasses asked what about the iPhone. The answer made total sense. We are aimed at the business market and not the consumer market so we need to support business. It kind of sucks because I can't show my friends and family the digital butler on my iPhone and looks like I will not be able to for a bunch of time. I'm sure Henry is right about the strategy.
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 3 bottles (same as last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequila (down one from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x Pizza)
Weight : 171 lbs
Monday, July 14, 2008
Geek babes!
I'm sure Henry has something to do with this. Yes we have way over the normal quota of babes in finance, marketing, HR and the normal places. But this is why Hank Commerce is just so different, we have geek babes as well!
I was at a brown bag this week and one of the total goddess babes was presenting. Hair pulled back, white t-shirt, skinny jeans, slingbacks you know the drill. OMG she totally knows what she is talking about, there was some stuff in there that blew my mind away. I'm sure that I must have looked like some sad puppy or something, my cube buddy kicked me one time, I think I must have been dribbling into my soda.
Henry has the vision. Development have the Geek babes. We are so totally writing the next big internet story!
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 3 bottles (down three from last week)
Shots : 3 x Tequila (same as last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x Pizza)
Weight : 170 lbs
I was at a brown bag this week and one of the total goddess babes was presenting. Hair pulled back, white t-shirt, skinny jeans, slingbacks you know the drill. OMG she totally knows what she is talking about, there was some stuff in there that blew my mind away. I'm sure that I must have looked like some sad puppy or something, my cube buddy kicked me one time, I think I must have been dribbling into my soda.
Henry has the vision. Development have the Geek babes. We are so totally writing the next big internet story!
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 3 bottles (down three from last week)
Shots : 3 x Tequila (same as last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x Pizza)
Weight : 170 lbs
Monday, July 7, 2008
Shopping carts are cool!
So I have been developing this feature for sometime. I finally got my design through HAHA (Hank Architecture Holistic Assessment), its a sort of review board that involves a lot of sitting in conference rooms drinking coffee and sodas. With that signed off, I got through the implementation and now I'm on to testing. I work on the platform side, I'm not one of those CSS/HTML guys, I'm not that cool. And building applications, well that's what you give people who can't code server side...
So I was wondering why QA or the Application teams were not banging on my desk each day waiting for me to finish. Then I thought about it. Where will this get used? The Pet Store is a punch out to a 3rd party that does the procurement flow, I think we use D River or something. So that store was out.
Then I thought about our stock trading system. That has to be real time since the prices change so much. So that store is out.
I was thinking the Flower store, but could not see that people would load it with a big number of items. So I went to see my manager, Can-I-Have-A-Latte-Sir and he said that it was "an investment in out future platform".
Wow. I think that is cool that we are really investing in the platform. Build it and they will come!
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (down one from last week)
Shots : 3 x Tequila (up one from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x Una Mass)
Weight : 170 lbs
So I was wondering why QA or the Application teams were not banging on my desk each day waiting for me to finish. Then I thought about it. Where will this get used? The Pet Store is a punch out to a 3rd party that does the procurement flow, I think we use D River or something. So that store was out.
Then I thought about our stock trading system. That has to be real time since the prices change so much. So that store is out.
I was thinking the Flower store, but could not see that people would load it with a big number of items. So I went to see my manager, Can-I-Have-A-Latte-Sir and he said that it was "an investment in out future platform".
Wow. I think that is cool that we are really investing in the platform. Build it and they will come!
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (down one from last week)
Shots : 3 x Tequila (up one from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x Una Mass)
Weight : 170 lbs
Monday, June 30, 2008
We have the Hank police!
Sometimes, you just hear things and think no f*ing way. Sure every company monitors emails and IM's or at least logs them. You know some harassment case comes up, fight over intellectual property, blah-blah-blah. The thing is, this normally get stuck on a bunch of disks, tapes or CD's and shipped off to Iron Mountain... just in case.
So I don't believe this, but apparently Henry has somebody up in Tracy or Modesto or some other hole in the central valley. Guess what they do? All they do is read other people's email and IM's the whole day. What are they looking for?
Well, my guess when I was talking to the Ops guys was anything security related, you know we have credit cards a shit like that in the database. Perhaps protecting our IP.
No. Ops dude says that all he looks for is references to Henry and whether anybody is talking shit about him, his women or his executive team. Henry gets a daily report. If you appear you are out of the door that day. Its some kind of totall weird I'm-not-a-communitsit-I-love-free-trade-but-talk-shit-and-you-are-in-the-gulag type of thing.
I love Henry, but that shit is totally f*ked up. It can't possibly be true.
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 6 bottles (up one from last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequila (up 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (4 x pizza, 4 x Una Mass)
Weight : 169 lbs
So I don't believe this, but apparently Henry has somebody up in Tracy or Modesto or some other hole in the central valley. Guess what they do? All they do is read other people's email and IM's the whole day. What are they looking for?
Well, my guess when I was talking to the Ops guys was anything security related, you know we have credit cards a shit like that in the database. Perhaps protecting our IP.
No. Ops dude says that all he looks for is references to Henry and whether anybody is talking shit about him, his women or his executive team. Henry gets a daily report. If you appear you are out of the door that day. Its some kind of totall weird I'm-not-a-communitsit-I-love-free-trade-but-talk-shit-and-you-are-in-the-gulag type of thing.
I love Henry, but that shit is totally f*ked up. It can't possibly be true.
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 6 bottles (up one from last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequila (up 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (4 x pizza, 4 x Una Mass)
Weight : 169 lbs
Monday, June 23, 2008
Awesome, lets all get electric staplers!
I totally get why I can't order Eclipse. Can-I-Have-A-Latte-Sir sent me over to the IT and Ops guys. I think he wanted to have a fun and watch them beat me down. I'm sure he's bi-polar or something else weird.
So the long and short of it, I get dressed down for asking to spend money to improve my productivity. Not only that, DJ the VP of Site Ops at the company meeting then gave this long horsewhipping about spending money. How we need to stop using Microsoft Office and buy Electric Staplers on Ebay. I was confused until somebody said it was a joke. It was something about how one of those costs the same of Microsoft Office and why would anybody want either. So, I dig it. I never got Microsoft Office, I got OpenOffice (which is cool) but all I wanted for Christmas was IntelliJ.
I got so busted in the company meeting on a different front. Could not help myself, but got caught casting an eye over "her". I think Henry has me down as a marked man. I avoided talking to him at the beer bash afterwards.
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (up three from last week)
Shots : 0 x Bourbon (down 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (4 x pizza, 1 x Una Mass)
Weight : 168 lbs
So the long and short of it, I get dressed down for asking to spend money to improve my productivity. Not only that, DJ the VP of Site Ops at the company meeting then gave this long horsewhipping about spending money. How we need to stop using Microsoft Office and buy Electric Staplers on Ebay. I was confused until somebody said it was a joke. It was something about how one of those costs the same of Microsoft Office and why would anybody want either. So, I dig it. I never got Microsoft Office, I got OpenOffice (which is cool) but all I wanted for Christmas was IntelliJ.
I got so busted in the company meeting on a different front. Could not help myself, but got caught casting an eye over "her". I think Henry has me down as a marked man. I avoided talking to him at the beer bash afterwards.
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (up three from last week)
Shots : 0 x Bourbon (down 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (4 x pizza, 1 x Una Mass)
Weight : 168 lbs
Monday, June 16, 2008
Eclipse is totally bogus!
I try so hard, every hour of every day of every week of every month. Startups can be tough, something like counting your pennies or something.
But, Eclipse is totally bogus. I mean, I get the whole open source, its free, just use it "as is". But dude, its like my time is totally not free. Where's the refund on my hours when I spend 30 minutes figuring out that I don't get that feature or the feature works different if I change my perspective.
I've heard Henry's rally call and it totally makes sense. Don't spend money we don't need to, we have to preserve cash in order that Henry can wine and dine the movers and shakers in New York and Charlotte, NC. But Eclipse? I've got to say, I'm tempted to get out my credit card and just buy IntelliJ myself. It makes my blood boil each time I see the friggin' oh-so-1997 splash screen.... grrrrr. I think I need to go to the gym just to cool off. And just how friggin' bogus is that?
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 3 bottles (down 2 from last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequilla (down 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (1 x pizza, 1 x Indian, 3 x Una Mass)
Weight : 166 lbs
But, Eclipse is totally bogus. I mean, I get the whole open source, its free, just use it "as is". But dude, its like my time is totally not free. Where's the refund on my hours when I spend 30 minutes figuring out that I don't get that feature or the feature works different if I change my perspective.
I've heard Henry's rally call and it totally makes sense. Don't spend money we don't need to, we have to preserve cash in order that Henry can wine and dine the movers and shakers in New York and Charlotte, NC. But Eclipse? I've got to say, I'm tempted to get out my credit card and just buy IntelliJ myself. It makes my blood boil each time I see the friggin' oh-so-1997 splash screen.... grrrrr. I think I need to go to the gym just to cool off. And just how friggin' bogus is that?
This weeks food and drink
Beer : 3 bottles (down 2 from last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequilla (down 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (1 x pizza, 1 x Indian, 3 x Una Mass)
Weight : 166 lbs
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