Zero is hiring nine more people. Wow. They're all, of course, to work on the new, VB-COM-ASP version, in that fabulous highly denormalized database, aka "the borg engine". Yes, wow again.
So we should all write an email to the so-called chief engineer, who will then read what we're currently doing, what we think we should be doing, and what we'd like to be doing, and from that somehow reshuffle the people and plug the new nine in (five engineering and four more documenters).
On other fronts, some emails between the staff about one of the apps not working for a customer in California, with me jumping in about what we can do. Nothing much.
I've been talking with Anthony yesterday, and it's about time we'd start the new App season for each of the customers. It's already done for MSCal, when the machine was here, so there's only everybody else. You make a list and start calling, with special attention to StLukes (they really should start praying to their founder they get a new disk soon).
The requirements for the new year:
1) diskspace
2) diskspace
3) diskspace
4) good connection so I can get through and do the following:
- create a copy of the last year's RAP directory
- rename the copy to RAP2000
- empty the tables in the current directory (checking inquiries for any records for this year)
- ship a fresh executable so they get to have the goodies we made meanwhile
- get the information on the location of EONS files into tracks.dbf (this may happen later, I haven't heard of anyone running this year's EONS so far)
This is, roughly, the checklist. We're starting today, ready or not :)
The Vietnamese below is gone, moved out. The company where he worked, Value America, went out of business in the big mudslide wave of the dot com bust. The trick they meant to get away with, to be merchants without merchandise, to be simply the middlemen (never saw that rectified into middleperson) between the manufacturers and buyers without owning the stuff, was later done right many times (eBay, Amazon et al), but these guys just had their bludgeon broken. It just didn't work, the goods often weren't delivered on time or not at all. He had a streak of bad luck already, last winter there was a morning of black ice, happens in these parts, even icy rain isn't uncommon, and he was about tenth in a fifty car chain crash on the highway. His new Golf was totaled.
A couple moved in, pretty much typical hippies by the looks, and rather typical Amers by habits. The cultural differences became obvious when I saw him walk out of the apartment in socks.
17-X-2013 - 29-X-2024