When I started working in this new gig I was provided with a Window machine, account and email address. I have now started getting mail from a lot of people with whom I have no project or task-related relations. This is ok… I can delete these after skimming through them But some of them inquire [...]

I have got well underway with my documentation assignment. I called for a second information meeting with the other developer today. We re-ran the meeting we started out with. A large part made more sense to me now that I have had a chance to look at the code. We are thinking about doing a [...]

Another day at the mine, I mean work, I mean the place I go to in the morning. Well I got a mail today from my manager, my PC had arrived, a bit surprised I went to the IT department to pick it up. It was a nice Dell machine. I have seen my fellow [...]

Ok, it has been more than a week now, I have still not seen any Perl code related to the stuff I am supposed to work on. My first task/project will be to document the existing code base etc. So I instead of working I have written a document or how I intend to work, [...]

I started on my new project a week ago. I was assigned a desk and a computer. I booted the windows machine I had been assigned, the manager came by with login credentials. Nice, this machine is normally used by another consultant, so stuff like cygwin, perl and other stuff was already installed. After a [...]