[Today’s run: zero \u00a0 ;\u00a0 yesterday’s run: watson road 3.5 miles]<\/p>\n
Job rant to follow:<\/p>\n
I like my job for the most part.\u00a0 But it has one large downside:\u00a0 there are too many different technologies that I am supposed to know.\u00a0 (maybe that is the upside too… every day is different)<\/p>\n
When I first started this job, 12 years ago (?), I had to know something about Oracle database and HP-UX.\u00a0\u00a0 I wrote some scripts in Perl.\u00a0 The application we bought has C, COBOL programs, SQL files and shell scripts.<\/p>\n
Over time I would get bored when things were going smoothly so I would investigate newer tools and technologies.\u00a0 For example, I did a bit of Java and some Perl CGI.\u00a0 Later I did some XML\/XSLT (and integrated that with Perl CGI).<\/p>\n
And then Oracle comes out with something called the Oracle Application Server which moves a bunch of stuff from the desktop PC’s\u00a0 (which were not my responsibility) into the server world.\u00a0 I went to some training and I muddle through with Oracle App Server stuff.<\/p>\n
Our App Server runs on Linux.\u00a0 So I have HP-UX, Linux, and some Windows to mess with.\u00a0 I do the networking so I know a bit about that.\u00a0 And I do printing stuff so I get to play with PCL and fonts and all of that stuff.\u00a0 I recently implemented Intelligent Barcode.\u00a0 Mailing standards, Dell remote console, Apache, gpg encryption, cobol compiler flags,… did you know that the cpio command on HP-UX is a worthless implementation?\u00a0 (I copied my cpio file to a linux box, unpacked it, tarred up the result, copied that back to the HP-UX box and untarred it.)<\/p>\n
My head sometimes feels like it is going to burst.\u00a0 If I were to keep better records of all of this that would be helpful.\u00a0 But I get too busy to type up and file papers (or to look for answers in the filing cabinet).<\/p>\n
Tonight I was trying to figure out how to create a second Oracle Reports Server process on our app server.\u00a0 That is going to take some\u00a0 practice before I inflict it on the production environment, so I gave up and left things alone.<\/p>\n
I missed my run tonight because I got going with this report server thing.<\/p>\n
If I ever ask, always remind me that it is better to run in the morning.\u00a0 If you wait you may not run at all.<\/p>\n
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