Jira

 I have decided that 'latest' is the 'sudo' of Jira api. 

Also, does anyone have a good source for learning Jira api?  

Hey, could you build...

That part where people ask if you could build a thing is never ending. The wife asked me about building something this morning. I couldn't run away as I was in the shower. 

Seems that Big Convention hired a company to build something that seems fairly simple, deadline of June 30, and BC hasn't seen the product yet. 

The sad part is... Yeah, I think I could build it, as could most everyone on here. A website that lets random folks sign in and fill out an incident report, storing the data in a db, and then lets others record all the follow up, plus create some progress reports, as well as daily and weekly reports. 

So yeah, I've already designed it, and redesigned it 5 times on the way to work, as I keep realizing new functions for it. 

Life as a coder.

I am not always smart

Witness me! I am an example of what not to do. 

Yesterday I was the pretty one! Like, so so pretty!

I spent several hours yesterday trying to figure out why I was making changes to files, and if I ran the file on its own it worked, but when I ran the bat file, it ignored all my changes. 

A coworker watched me make changes, and also couldn't understand why it was doing what it was doing. 

Today, I am less pretty. I discovered I was editing the files in the src folder, but the bat file runs the files in the main folder. 

Why there are duplicate files in this program I don't have an answer for. I didn't write it... But it is based on something I did write. So, it is complex.

They made changes

They asked me about progress on a program I started last Sept, and last touched in Dec. I was totally clueless at that point as it is pulling data out of Jira, and then running a UCC ESLOC comparison between the current and last pull request in bitbucket, take that value and insert it into customfield_24954.

And if you read all that I bet you are just as clueless about it as I was 8 months ago... And still am. 

The code I wrote that was kinda working... They changed how the api works, so now I got nothing. And I don't know what else is broken as it doesn't get past step 1.

In other words, it is a typical day in the life of a coder

Hired for our tech skills

 Mile long path to a folder. 

Cut & paste it into email... 

And because the very last folder has a space between the words, rather than a _, which is what the 10 other folders have, it fails to work, and I have to manually edit the link.

And we were all hired for our tech skills.

Trying to anticipate the end-user

 Trying to anticipate an end-user's needs. 

Do they want to keep old data or not? 

They want to keep the old file, but do they want to keep all of the old tabs, or can I delete everything other than Template, Cover Page, and the ones being updated?

I could make it so it takes a second argument (delete). If it is not there keep them, and if it is 'delete' then delete them. 

Sure I could just ask them, but where is the fun in that?

What are you doing today?

::: Scrum/dept meeting :::

Them: So what are you doing today? 

Me: Mostly screaming at my code. Just one word, over and over. And the word is "Why?". 

Sometimes the reason is me. 

Ok, most of the time.