Archive for February, 2008

Debt

So I am now, fundamentally in debt… good debt, I think, but debt.

How? I’ve bought a flat in Winchester. Yes, I’m in Texas, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem in this day and age.

Now I just have to wait 3 weeks before I’m back in Winchester to see if it is anything like I remember.

Civilisation

See, no need to bring Tea with you to America!

Lone Star State

Last night I arrived in Austin, Texas, my home for the next month!

More later….

Distributed Development

One of the things that I really enjoy is working in a distributed development team which spans the globe. On occasion, however it can be a little frustrating. Yesterday I returned a defect to the originator asking for some diagnostic trace. It was here for me when I arrived in the morning. Excellent I thought, I’ll get it squared away today. Then I went looking for the particular piece of trace which would provide the critical information. What did I find?

(big messy startup deleted)

The originator tried to be helpful, and unfortunately, this time, it’ll slow us down some while I wait for him to get into the office in the US and send me the original file. That’s one of the downsides of distributed development…

Sushi

On Wednesday, for only the second time ever, I had Sushi. It was excellent. Thanks again to Paul and Jonathan for introducing me to it 2 years ago.

It was at the end of a good day’s work out of the office doing something completely new, and ended up with a few drinks with a good friend. Yes, it was a good day.

More regular posts to resume shortly….


About

I’m David Illsley, I work in Web Services development at IBM Hursley, which involves work on the Apache WS Project, where I am a committer and PMC member. When not working with technology, I spend a lot of time on the backstage aspects of theatre, and a sadly decreasing amount of time reading.

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