About 8 months ago I was working on a project which was unfortunately eventually abandoned and I had a major problem with one of my aspects on it. It was never something I was able to fix, it was just not working and nothing I tried got anywhere. However today I’ve just solved it. Thanks to a new set of tools I was able to see the exact error that was going on and put a fix in place in seconds. It’s a damn nice feeling. While in one sense I’m kicking myself for not seeing it and indeed for letting it happen in the first place I’m more happy that I managed to finally figure it out and sort it.
Where did all this come from, well that’s another story. I’ve been fighting or at least requesting a lot to get a problem fixed before we reach an important milestone as I felt it would reflect really badly on our work. So I brought it up again with my boss yesterday and the simple reply was “if you want it done by then, you have to do it”. Its not something I wanted to it, I really didn’t, it meant going back and working on some of my old responsibilities which I have tried to distance myself from, but I was not happy to let it go out as it was. So thinking about it last night I decided that fuck it, it was more important to me to have it working than to have to worry everything else and you know what I’m kinda proud of that. It doesn’t work right now, but the problem is fixed and when our install goes through later tonight it will be fixed and it will be fixed when I sit at my desk in the morning and sign on, and I am looking forward to that. It’s gonna look good and hell it’s going to make me happy. NOW we can go beta, I have spoken 🙂
I’m not quite sure who this is a two fingers to, but it certainly feels like it is to someone and it feels damn good.