End of week update

Last week was semi productive, the first half I was working on ITS042, however I had estimated this work to take a maximum of three days. My analysis took a morning, the remedial work took a day and I used the majority of an afternoon for testing. I took time to update visual source safe so all documents I had worked on were up to date and made sure that anything that could be affected by my changes were not negatively affected.

By the time day 3 of the project came round I found myself with no work and I had to keep myself busy somehow.

I arranged to demonstrate the results of the project to the project manager, that way I had a third party visually confirm completion and satisfaction. I assisted another developer with some issues she had with scripts written for the old student migration project.

I also done a PIE for a new developer who was starting this morning, I'll post about that next.

Mairi has pointed me at subjects like Polopoly (the content management system on the university's website) to read up on and try to understand, there is a working instance on the development server so I could also go mess around with it. the things there is Polopoly takes days of class training followed by days of on the job training so I don't know if I could extract anything I can use with it over the time I have, its still worth a play with though!

At the moment I don't have a workload, I have asked for one and have been since Wednesday night, however people are busy and it cant be easy finding work for me. The problem though is that with a project to work on I cant code my time against anything.

My worry is that I cant account for my time on Friday, nothing I did was a university sanctioned project and I cant just say that I used the time to study.

Secondly, I don't like having nothing to do, I am here to develop as a professional and I now have three days where I didn't do that.

Thirdly, I feel like everyone around me is contributing to the momentum of the department, I know that at the moment I'm not and I don't like that.