I know a lot of bloggers and writers and speakers have been condemming the lazy coder. Today I will be he. I just found out via a cell call ( I think ALL management around here thinks they have EVERY Friday in the summer off just because) that I am to start a new project today, and inheriting another half finished half assed project next week, do be done by mid July. Both projects are to be done in VB6. Great. How long has .NET been out? Just because the other developers I work with (whom I actually like and respect ) haven't been given the time or encouragement to start learning .NET. No one else here knows it ( so they can't maintain it when go mental and end up in a padded room talking to bugs and naming each individual hair on my head ), and most don't even have it installed if they did want to learn it. I had to learn using the 90 day trials from various dev events I paid for out of my own pocket, on my own time. Nothing like burning off vacation days to try to keep yourself up to speed, or coming to bed at 3 in the morning because you were doing some TeachYourself crap you boss won't pay for you to learn. arragghhhh!
I feel like a little kid at the beach today. I'm trying my best to build my stupid sand castle and the waves keep coming back, wearing a little away here, collapsing a wall there. Add in a nice sunburn and maybe even some sand fleas and a jellyfish sting or two, and that's what I feel like today.
If I have to start one more project in VS6, I think I will come in to work wearing an industrial strength electromagnetic suit and dry hump every server and dev maching in the office.
Ok starting to catch my breath again. I just wanated someone else to feel my pain. Get well cards and alcohol would be appreciated.