Collision of two worlds

Finally, I’m going to get employed in my company as an internal employee. Until now, I have been employed as a developer outsourced here. It’s a significant promotion for me as my payroll will increase.
I’ve spent all my working-day yesterday on an internal training. HR staff introduced company structure, employee’s duties and benefits. I must [...]

Fighting complexity in the real world

The past few days I’ve spent on fighting complexity. This time however, it wasn’t software I had to fight with but.. humans. I found it amazingly hard to deal with human individuals infected with desparate fear of taking responsibility. This fear combined with buerocracy resulted with ridiculous problems that should had never happened. Notice the [...]

Desktop is bad

I’ve spent most of the previous week trying to set up some tools running on a windows machine. With help of our support team I’d been fighting misconfiguration and network problems trying to get that windows running right. We’d spent many hours clicking around via Remote Assistance. After that I think the idea of managing [...]

GSoC: the way to save money on head hunters

The company I work for pays quite big money to head hunter companies for searching top specialists available at various locations. It saves our management’s and developer’s time so the employees do not have to waste time on searching and interviewing so much people and can focus on business tasks solely. But I found lately [...]

C++ projects

I’ve recently received several invitations for job interviews, mainly for Java or C++ developer. The fun thing is that - I guess - one of headhunters might have wanted to offer me job in.. company I already work for :) I didn’t really even talked to them but given the information they’ve sent It’s highly [...]

Brainwashing

Today I’m exhausted with two-day meeting spent mainly on watching slides and discussing things of minor importance. Things that should be covered in documentation end up just in PowerPoint slides, since documentation is full enough of boilerplate text and abbreviation flood that there’s no place in there for useful things. Two days of staring at [...]