{"id":290,"date":"2003-12-03T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=290"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"work-and-open-source-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2003\/12\/work-and-open-source-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Work and Open Source woes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my second day of work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve certainly been busy, I&#8217;ll be working full time there until the end of the year, after which they will review all the upcoming work and see if they actually want to bring me onboard as a full time person. A real job! That would be great. No, I&#8217;m not getting my hopes too amazingly high right now, even if I were brilliant they couldn&#8217;t bring me on unless there really is work for me to do. I really hope it works out.<\/p>\n<p>I have started to learn a bit about my perfect challenging level, I could never be part of a profession that is high stress. But what I&#8217;m doing now with Zope is very good. I get stumped, I get frustrated (like I was for a bit this morning), but then I figure things out and it feels really good to dive into work and make amazing headway (like this afternoon, when I FINALLY found a solution). In addition to learning more about myself, even in just two days of steady work, I learned some other things:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; PostgreSQL is evil and my first impressions have almost made me cry. I am familiar with basic sql statements, what is this strangeness that Postgres uses? I will need to find more documentation<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Speaking of which, I finally know what people have been screaming about when talking about open source documentation. Maybe it does exist, but it&#8217;s sparse, often out-dated, and you have to resort to wading through YEARS of mailing list archives to find most solutions (that&#8217;s where I found a solution to my problem this morning).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I also know what people have been screaming about when it comes to open source scripting. Some things in DTML just don&#8217;t make sense at all to me, so obscure and insane. Maybe they make sense to python people (zope runs on python), but I&#8217;m not a python person!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that was my day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy though, it&#8217;s very nice to be working.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; I didn&#8217;t even look in irc today, I must have an interestingly high idle time right now.<\/p>\n<p>Myk&#8217;s home with dinner (Indian food, mmm!). I&#8217;m going to eat. *wanders off*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my second day of work. I&#8217;ve certainly been busy, I&#8217;ll be working full time there until the end of the year, after which they will review all the upcoming work and see if they actually want to bring me onboard as a full time person. A real job! That would be great. No, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}