End of Week Update - 007

By A.A. Lopez

    I don't know if this week was a lot or if the adrenaline from last week is finally crashing. Oh, right forgot to mention: my car got broken into and almost stolen, that was fun. Thankfully, all that was taken was a bag full of camping supplies, and the only damage was to the car door handle and the ignition switch (insurance covered it all). But after that this past week has been a total blur.

    Though I can say for certainty that I did accomplish a lot of the things I set out to do this week. So maybe the tiredness is from trying to do everything all at once. Well, let's actually get into it.

Accomplishments:

• Completed and Delivered the GUI toolset
• Completed the presentation with glowing marks and ready to present next week
• Updated the name of my chrome extensions to UNL and ACP (Updated Notes Log and Airtable CSV Parser)
• CC Tool... This one had some alterations so it's now a Pathway maker, but I did get the folder ready along with two different UI mockups
• Also, also learned how to create functional buttons in Lucid, so now the UI mockup acts like the actual extension would

    And looking back at the SoW for this week, I did everything I set out to do. Yeesh, no wonder I'm tired, and on top of that had to handle 3 different specialty projects, give a full rundown of some rulesets to the higherups, and even advocate to keep a legacy program around longer because we ran into a huge problem that almost caused a delay for something due in 4 days. Gods, I'm tired.

    Well, I'm heading back to my parent's this weekend and spending time up there for the rest of the week there. So a lot of the projects I'm working on for this blog will be on hold until I get back. Though I will tease that I'm going to try something experimental when I get back in September. I'll most likely post a SoW and EoW for next week, but maybe they'll just be "I'm alive" posts.

    With that said, I'm out, peace.

LESSON OF THE WEEK: Adrenaline and caffeine are the devil's plaything and eyes' worst nightmare.

 Start of Week Update - 007

By A.A. Lopez

    Man, I really have a bad habit of leaving weekly blogs alone for too long. Probably should try harder to stick to a schedule; maybe put an alarm on my phone or something. Anyways, let's break down what's been happening and what the plan is for this week.

    Finally, release the Notes extension to my team in general. The downside is that my boss, his boss, and side-boss all don't like the name I gave it. They want a more marketable name for the extension, so I have to think of something before Thursday after next, when I do a presentation for the global team. So that'll be a part of my workload this week.

    Oh, and the GUI for the other toolset is finally complete. The only problem is that packaging it has become a hassle due to its needing output folders. However, I got the okay from the dev who made the code that I can junk that feature and update it to go straight to the /Downloads folder. Once I do that, I should be able to package on a Mac, but I will have to do some finagling to make it an .exe file for Windows.

    Then I have another toolset being asked by another team for an extension that reads .xls/.xlsx files, grabs certain columns, then compares/contrasts them against a directory to see if the names and filetypes match, and spits out a .csv report. I already finished the pseudo-code and flowchart for that one. I just need to create the base output for the .csv report, and then I can get started on making the thing.

    So my week is heavy with projects, along with my standard workload. Not that I mind, but I would like it if I could get some recognition beyond the accolades of some folks. At the very least, I can put the schematics and flowcharts here (redacted of any sensitive materials related to my work). Hopefully, someone might see it and be impressed with the things I've been working on... Though being this scatterbrained probably isn't the best.

    Anyways, let's break down this week:

• Monday
• Finish the Toolset GUI repackaging
• Create a skeleton of the presentation
• Name dev for the notes extension
• Begin the groundwork for the new Extension Compare/Contrast toolset
• Tuesday
• Have a meeting about the presentation
• Deliver the GUI toolset to the team
• Name dev
• Wednesday
• Presentation prep
• Name dev
• Thursday
• Have a folder ready for the CC Toolset
• Send the presentation for review
• Friday
• Relax

    Looking at this is having my heart racing, but I'm confident I can get this all done during my alloted time. Let's just hope nothing bad happens in the meantime.