Friday, July 18, 2025

Jira

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

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

Thursday, July 10, 2025

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.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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.

We can't do that here

I remember years ago looking over a book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, and thinking how this would be so useful at work. Half of m...