"Dr. Science says that he'll probably have Office Extrovert take over the PC end of the Hamster project so you can switch back to the Unprintable Project," Dr. Smith tells me.
"Oh. But—" I'm just getting good with this. I can get new stuff implemented and debugged in less than a day now. There's four more things in particular that I really want to do with the Hamsters before I have to—
"We should have one of the new Hamster boards populated by the end of the week for you to start testing," he goes on.
So what am I supposed to be doing? "Oh, really? Did Dr. Science say when they were going to test the Hamsters out on the roof with the real data?" The roof bit is interesting. I'm not relinquishing the Hamsters till the roof.
"Probably whenever we give them the go-ahead. Are they ready? Do they work consistently?" he asks.
"Except when they don't. They are working pretty well. I think the problems I had on Friday were due to loose cables. So I can start testing them with the 300 foot cables?"
He shrugs. "I guess you can get Office Extrovert to help you make those up tomorrow. And start testing them."
"—" Sounds like a reprieve from the Unprintable Project. Now if I can just—
As usual, Dr. Smith continues. "Can you print out another copy of the parts list for the Hamsters? Did you have the part number for the 17x2 sockets? How many of those did we need? What about—"
259 words | July 19, 2004 08:03 PM | Rocket scienceYou should blow some minds and offer to pair program with Office Extrovert as a way to transfer knowledge (and stay away from the unprintable project). If Dr. Science wants to know more, just chant "XP" at him and wave your arms.
And watch out with those large packets (if we're talking IP raw here), get one cheap store and forward switch in the way, and its all over.
Posted by: Derek at July 23, 2004 02:11 AMWell, they wanted the big packets because they thought it might be more efficient. If it becomes a problem, it's easy enough to adjust now that I fixed the code.
The Unprintable Project has sort of faded for the moment. Dr. Smith took some of it home to work on there (probably as an excuse to hide from the grandchildren and their poodle and Mrs. Smith wanting him to help with the house move that seems to have been going on for months). Besides, some very screwy errors have turned up in the Hamster data transmission and they take priority. Phew!
OE and I have been pair programming already on the PC side of the Hamster system and that's worked out quite well. With any luck, we'll be able to keep adding features and I'll be able to avoid the Unprintable Project forever.
Posted by: Nee-chama at July 23, 2004 08:04 PM