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20030818 Monday August 18, 2003

The First Day at the New Gig I can already tell this is going to be a wicked place to work. It has the feel of a .com company - shorts are allowed, people are smart, technology is bleeding edge. They're using JBuilder 9 and Visual Source Safe, so there's some new tools to learn. My machine isn't nearly as fast as I'd hoped (1.6 GHz, 768 MB), but it'll certainly do. I did get dual monitors, which I have a hard time living without - so I can't complain at all. There were four of us that are starting this week or next - 2 graphics designers and 2 Java developers. We are tasked with building 42 custom websites in the next 6 months. Sweet - I love a good challenge! Posted in General at Aug 18 2003, 10:06:03 PM MDT 4 Comments

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Sorry - I just love the way you can put these two sentences together:

technology is bleeding edge

and

They're using JBuilder 9 and Visual Source Safe.

Do they seem contradictory to anyone else? :)

Mike

Posted by Mike Cannon-Brookes on August 19, 2003 at 01:39 AM MDT #

You're right - I'm not happy about the JBuilder thing. But I guess the only reason for that is so the Configuration Manager (they have a config manager?!) can pull out the "package" from source control. I hope to silently show them the light of tools like Eclipse, Ant and CVS. They're planning on migrating to CVS - now if I could just get them to use JIRA. ;-)

I think the same reason they use these tools is that they're fearful of the alternatives because they don't know how to use them. Kinda like my fear for WebWork. :-D

Posted by Matt Raible on August 19, 2003 at 08:40 AM MDT #

JBuilder 9 with Together would be really nice and could possibly be considered "bleeding edge". Having a good UML tool is a nifty thing to have. There is no excuse for Visual Source UnSafe. My utopian development environment is IDEA, JIRA, CVS and Orion. Maybe one of these days I will find utopia. Until then, back to JBuilder, CVSTrac, CVS and WebLogic.

Posted by Carl on August 19, 2003 at 12:28 PM MDT #

Yeah, but have you found the closest brew pub yet? I sure miss those days when all we'd have to do is wait for Friday and then walk (ok, run) across the street. Instead of trying to match impossible schedules like now-a-days. Glad you like this new job atmosphere!

Posted by Christina on August 19, 2003 at 02:46 PM MDT #

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