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Table of contents- 1. Friday, April 22
- 2. Thursday, April 21
- 3. Wed, April 20
- 4. Tuesday, April 19
- 5. Monday, April 18
- 6. Thursday, April 14
- 7. Tuesday, April 12
- 8. Monday, April 11
- 9. Friday, April 8
- 10. Thursday, April 7
- 11. Wednesday, April 6
- 12. Tuesday, April 5
- 13. Monday, April 4
- 14. Saturday, April 2
- 15. Friday, April 1
- 16. Thursday, March 31
- 17. Wednesday, March 30
- 18. Tuesday, March 29, 2005
- 19. Monday, March 28, 2005
- 20. Friday, March 25, 2005
- 21. Thursday, March 24, 2005
- 22. Wednesday, March 23, 2005
- 23. Tuesday, March 22, 2005
- 24. Monday, March 21, 2005
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
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
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
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
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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