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Friday, April 22

  • PC Putzing
  • Daily production meeting
  • More: Review data files for salesman Harrison Moss.
  • Develop a work-around for tap2tap aborting. (Just check an Environment variable inside Abort in tapehandler library.)
  • Process improvement meeting.
  • Help Linda with how to attach files to wiki pages.
  • Help Linda with how to check out SourceJammer files on the E450 over a slow link.

Thursday, April 21

  • install a better NIC in atl-solimar-pc5, so we can get normal network throughput for the Subversion testing.
  • Daily production meeting.
  • Issue a standard for $RIS_GLOBAL_DATA_WORK/$RIS_GLOBAL_WORK_AREA/ and $RIS_GLOBAL_CODE_ROOT/$RIS_GLOBAL_WORK_AREA/

  • Bill's staff meeting.
  • Review data files for salesman Harrison Moss.
  • Some Use Cases for Subversion.

Wed, April 20

  • Put a USB ethernet adapter (my personal property) onto atl-solimar-pc5. Disabled built-in ethernet. Much faster. Still need 100 MBit.
  • Daily production meeting
  • Help Keith with proc file system and pr_ioch for process I/O checking for FTP zapper.
  • Sort out how to preserve Outlook email formatting in mail read on Lotus Notes (See "Through The Leaking Glass").
  • Seek further clarity on SR13224. Assign it to Jim Adle.
  • Install Oracle on PC5

Tuesday, April 19

  • Daily production meeting
  • Revising Implementations flow diagrams to integrate with Programming process
  • Subversion committee meeting

Monday, April 18

  • Email triage
  • Production meeting
  • My staff meeting
  • See if Maxthon can warn on exit-with-multiple-tabs-open, since I've removed Firefox as a time-waster.
  • Re-install Firefox. Let's see if I can make it my primary browser.
  • E450 upgrade planning call
  • Work with Keith on cleaning up the FTP scraper.
  • Work with Keith on the virtual tape program.
  • Memo about E450 upgrade - Infrastructure owns it.

Thursday, April 14

  • Arrived at 9:25 - doctor appointment
  • Daily production meeting
  • Spent a lot of time on memo to Joel explaining why we're not ready to support his OS upgrade on the E450
  • Bill's staff meeting.
  • Hey! We're about to start using the FTP scraper for CSC.
  • Double hey! Jonathan created our named pipe for tape redirection.
  • VCS kick-off meeting

= Wednesday, April 13

  • Frittered most of the day

Tuesday, April 12

  • Requirements definition for minor ILD enhancement. (CSRs don't know how to capture requirements.)
  • Daily production meeting
  • Call Sherry Ferguson about Stern Agee going direct to Jim Adle, and ask her to prioritize with Ralph.
  • Dawne's WFS status call
  • Call Vicki - billability of ILD maint SR
  • Send WFS Address file to Dawne. Explain it to her.
  • KJ - what's the score on the address file
  • CW - can we make use of Jim Trahan on 880 migr? Keith?
  • CW - sighup to keith?
  • Added '+' to upper-case character set on MoinMoin xwiki parser. This lets me force wiki words to the top of the table-of-contents.

  • GTD review
  • Work on the standards process standard

Monday, April 11

  • Email triage
  • Brett Walker is frustrated over V880 migration
  • Angla is unhappy over the FTP scraper
  • How did we load a corrupt font without detecting the issue ahead of production problems? Write a policy to prevent recurrence.
  • Research where Exelon test data arrives for John Cookson
  • Set up a demo Subversion repository and advertise it
  • Compile fastcgi for cygwin Apache2

Friday, April 8

  • Process change request for 2005.1 to add an EC flag for inserts, in addition to the one for messages.
  • Daily production meeting
  • Joel hinted that we'll have an OS upgrade on the E450.
  • Help Keith with the eliminate-tape-via-named-pipe project
  • process improvement meeting
  • invite other programming managers to join the PPIT
  • Revise interim keyline standard (wiki formatting changed when we upgraded from Instiki)
  • Revise programming process doc
  • Kick off the standards process for version control
  • Draft standard for Subversion VCS and call for standards process execution on it

Thursday, April 7

  • Sweep email into GTD
  • Daily production meeting
  • Bills staff meeting and prep
  • Pre-sales call with Energy United
  • A little RITS-SR policy
  • A little SMB networking for Barr project management
  • Install SourceJammer on Bill's PC

  • Lay some groundwork for Subversion
  • Discuss metadata project w/Curtis
  • Chair inter-site deploy process meeting
  • Demo Subversion for Kevin Johnson

Wednesday, April 6

  • Email triage
  • Daily production meeting
  • Request more access to V880 for Curtis
  • Non-binding estimate on Merck-Medco rewrite
  • Build RapidSVN successfully (needed GNU gettext)
  • Assist CSRs with capturing requirements for SRs
  • Create a couple of SRs in RITS-SR
  • Chair a standards process meeting
  • Draft a standards process standard
  • Estimate converting UMASS from tape to FTP data delivery

Tuesday, April 5

  • Vacation/floating holiday

Monday, April 4

  • Vacation/floating holiday

Saturday, April 2

  • Read about version control systems and trial Subversion

Friday, April 1

  • Reduce 401K withholding to escape the non-qualified plan at $5000
  • Email triage
  • Daily production meeting
  • Fetch lunch for my staff
  • Buncha communication about 'standards' and the standards 'process' in prep for today's big conference call
  • Bill says standards should come from the bottom up
  • Held first DPS Programming Managers Quarterly Conference Call
  • Try to tune TCP performance on Linux box

Thursday, March 31

  • Daily production meeting
  • Dawne's WFS conference call
  • Estimating V880 crash migration
  • Moving monitors out from under roof leaks
  • Bills staff meeting (and prep)
  • "Who owns the RITS-SR data?" meeting
  • Carefully written email to JR suggesting that he use consensus to build support for standards

Wednesday, March 30

  • Daily production meeting
  • Walk-through software delivery process w/Todd and Terri
  • Planning for quarterly conference call
  • Estimating V880 crash migration

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

  • Email triage
  • Fussing with my calendar
  • Dawne's WFS call
  • Walk through DPS programming process with Todd and Teri
  • Debug wiki page subscription in MoinMoin for Awiki

  • JR's call to discuss the repeatable deploy process with him and Chuck

Monday, March 28, 2005

  • Daily production meeting
  • V880 meeting with Network Services
  • Development process meeting with Todd and Terri
  • Diagnosis on a report of non-delivery of CYC001 PDFs from last Friday (probably Wednesday).

Friday, March 25, 2005

  • Daily production meeting
  • Complete estimate and review Verio data+pdf estimate with Ralph Earle
  • PC putzing
  • Estimate WFS 05.2. Discuss estimate with Dawne.
  • Lost a lot of time dealing with Birmingham domain access problems
  • Non-binding estimate on Energy U to Todd and Terri

Thursday, March 24, 2005

  • Created MoinMoin plugin parser xwiki. It properly handles local interwiki links (the kind that display a different page title than the page name).

  • Daily production meeting
  • Dispatched Keith and Curtis to just do Duckworth code migration and deployment process

  • Bill's staff meeting
  • Memo to Bill about PDF merging
  • Misc small, urgent issues
  • Hey! We printed via MSCLIENT.
  • Spoke with JR about getting requirements to programmers before coding and not afterward.
  • Invited JR to submit information he wants covered at DPS quarterly conference call

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

  • Daily production meeting
  • More work on MSCLIENT
  • Review .manifest file proposal by Curtis
  • Estimating processing PDF plus data feed

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

  • Daily production meeting
  • I accidentally deleted all my Lotus calendar entries. Whoops. (Not related to DAMO.)
  • Create an MSCLIENT boot floppy to show that the Barr PC can network without using our proprietary pseudo-NFS client.
  • Added a save button to the TOP of the MoinMoin PageEditor.py

  • Show Keith how to do file:///C:\userstyle.css or file:///c:/userstyle.css user stylesheets in Moin

Monday, March 21, 2005

  • Sort out some DAMO problems
  • Daily production meeting
  • KJ doesn't want to re-encrypt the WFS split-up files
  • More DAMO problems
  • Check Stern Agee SRs to ensure they are billable
  • Estimating Energy U
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