Monday, November 30, 2015

One crazy day

You might notice the date of this post matches the previous. The reason for this is I wrote the first blog entry on another site. This morning I went to look at it and I realized that other site keeps all blogs private so I'm moving onto a new site.

Today was a crazy day. It started off by sitting down in front of my computer and my chair broke underneath me causing me to fall to the ground. I was so upset by this I didn't feel like making breakfast so I stopped by McDonald's on the way to work. But of course McDonald's screwed up my order so I had to go back and get it fixed.

At work since it was the first Monday after the thanksgiving weekend I forgot what I was working on last Wednesday. No major issues from this but I did have a bug that I blame on the weekend. What happened is on Wednesday I copied and pasted some code and then modified it. The problem is I forgot to change one function call. Then today I assumed that part of the code was correct but I just couldn't get it to run right. Since I assumed it was correct, I spent too much time looking at other parts of the code.

Before going home My teammate had some SQL issues that never been a problem before. It wasn't really his problem either it was the customer that thought they could save some money by creating the easy forms themselves but instead they made so many mistakes and we got to fix them. Should have just created them ourselves.

After work I was able to buy a new chair. Then I searched the normal job sites and found nothing. Typical Monday. It's now 11pm. I wish I had the time to work on the website but I need to go to bed.


The First Entry

So this is my first entry into this blog.  I have been trying to break into the software industry for a while now.  I've had a software job for the past 2 years but it sucks and it's not where I want to live. 

The other day it was suggested to me that I write a blog to show people that I am serious and to show people what I'm working on to improve myself.  So to get started, what I'm working on right now.

Winery Directory.  My current project is to learn Ruby on Rails and to create a website that lists all the wineries in the region.  I'm working on this website for my brother in law so I have to create it in such a way that he can add wineries through the web application.  Right now the first iteration of this app is 1/2 complete and moving fast.  I'm setting the end of December as the goal to finish the first iteration.

What I learned today.  Today I needed to connect two tables together.  It took me a while, but eventually I figured it out.  Tomorrow I'm moving onto the next task of allowing the user to edit the page.