!rant

I just figured out you can double tap rants to give them a ++.

:: *joins devRant to rant about everything*

:: *everything I want to complain about is on the front page*

:: *sighs in relief*

I am so off my game today that I accidentally rewrote the String.IfNullOrWhiteSpace extension method in C# because I forgot it existed.

My extension had a better name tho: String.IfItAintNoThang

Everybody leaves me alone until I'm pseudocoding an algorithm to solve a tough problem and need to keep my train of thought. Then suddenly everybody needs me.

>Client complains about a 30 minute downtime around midnight
>Client also pays only for a single VM on a HV that they don't even own themselves

>Replies with an offer of how to make the setup more resilient, going from 1 VM to 2 LBs/FE loadbalanced through BGP, and distributing traffic through HaProxy onto 2 BE machines that in turn talk to a Postgres Cluster with RepMgr for dynamic failover.

>No reply so far

Hmmm :^)

Boss: We need you to configure our Apache Tomcat server for SSL.

Me: Okay, what version of Tomcat is installed?

Boss: 5.5.20

Me:

I resolved a list of bugs and no new problems came up in testing.

So why am I so scared?

On a good day for me as an SE, the ratio of solving problems to causing problems is close to 1:1

Freaking hell!!!
Whatever I learn just that is being shown to me via news and tweets

It was nothing about BGP connections till yesterday

It was nothing about any unknown hell thing a moment before I came to know about it

And I'm observing it since 2 months now

Me: "I got the job! I write computer programs now!"

Mom: "I'm so proud of you, -bgm-. Does that mean you can come over and take a look at my computer now? The speakers, whenever I go on Facebook, they make this popping noise--"

Me: "Gotta go, ma."

!rant

Out of all the Easter eggs you put in your code, which is your favorite?

!rant

I just found out that if you have a list of lists in C#, you can use a LINQ statement and specify indices inside the lambda instead of nested ForEaches.

This code is giving me the vapors

Work email conversation with a COTS app support tech:

Tech: Could you provide me the following from Sql Server? (instructions followed)

Me: I am not the DBA, but I've sent them the request.

Tech: Could you send me the following from Sql Server while we wait? (Instructions followed)

Me: As I said, I don't have permissions to access what you want.

Tech: Oh, I see now, you most likely don't have proper access to be able to retrieve the information.

Me: ..yeah. Thanks.

Serious question - how does one learn basics of higher level networking, beyond stuff I can mess with on my local machine?

Today, I was completely caught off guard when I had to set up BGP-based loadbalancing on a machine and I just... Didn't know how the whole topology looks or behaves...

Once I go beyond the server in the network, I tend to get lost. Especially around how routing works and stuff like that... All I know is my machine has one or more gateways to which it sends data going to specific network segments...