You keep using that word.

 I don't think it means what you think it means. 

- Princess Bride

A huge part of communication is agreeing on what a term means. 

My current over project is an example of not having that agreement. 

Someone says we should be working on X. Great, we build something that deals with X. We show it to them. "It is good, but this is Y, not X". 

4 different groups, each using different terms for the same thing is not efficient. 

ProjectEcho: Interstitial Journaling Project 3

 I am thinking it is 99% done as I am not coming up with new ideas to add to it. 

https://github.com/krgirard33/ProjectEcho

Started as a note taking app that time stamps the notes, 

• then got project labels so I could figure out what project I was working on, 
• then got todos which ties into the projects, 
• got a calendar so I could limit the notes to the last 2 weeks, 
• then finished todos got limited to 1 month and added to the calendar, 
• then project dashboards, 
• then elapsed time so I could see how many hours I spent in each day, 
• then how many hours on a project, 
• then I added in recurring todos (The thing I am still tweaking around, not sure I am happy with).

 Need to update the User's Guide. 

And now I wonder what will come next.  

 

Rule 14

 If it is a major issue to get something fixed in the source program, then you have to fix it in your program. 

Inventing work arounds is fun.

ProjectEcho: Interstitial Journaling Project 2

 I have been having a lot of fun creating this. Totally flying by the seat of my pants, creating new features based on "It be neat if it had..." 

I think it is almost ready to try and use at work.  

https://github.com/krgirard33/ProjectEcho

 

ProjectEcho: Interstitial Journaling Project

So, what does a programmer do after a week of programming? Works on my own silly project., an Interstitial Journaling page... that has mission creep. 

The basic idea of interstitial journaling is to write a few lines every time you take a break, and to track the exact time you are taking these notes. (For more on this: https://nesslabs.com/interstitial-journaling)

 I needed a better way to track what I am doing at work, as different projects get charged to different accounts, and this looked interesting and easy.

 I through in a calendar so I can see what I did last week, and a todo list so I can kinda plan stuff. 
But most of it has been me working with it and saying "It needs...". Very little planning. 

It is ProjectEcho as it is a way for me to get some feedback on where all the time went, what was I doing, etc.  

https://github.com/krgirard33/ProjectEcho 

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.