Archives for March 1, 2013

Life at USPS

A colleague created an enhancement, and it was put in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) Environment yesterday, and he then left for vacation for a week - oh, and it's scheduled to go into production this Sunday.  He asked me to "test" it since the end users didn't really know "how" to test it according to him.  Anyway, I tested it this morning, and the enhancement causes an email notification to be … [Read more...]

2nd class at Saint Thomas: Software Engineering

First session of SEIS 610 Software Engineering was 2 weeks ago.  I was immedaitely impressed by our instructor (C. Lai).  He put up easy to read slides, and spoke toward them, not reading them word for word.  He spoke for the entire 6-1/2 hour class, giving us instruction on the term's group project, and the first 2 assignments, as well as enlightening the class about a "new" (read: different) … [Read more...]