Author: admin

  • Taskzilla refreshed

    The new TaskZilla design looks great, my helping hand got familiar with the bugzilla templates quite fast 🙂

    I feel the pressure from the top, merging everything into a project-based approach, more and more. And I still feel uncomfortable with that. I don’t like it, I want to work on a product, get feedback from the customers and enhance it. I know, that the potential of the product is much more, than currently, but there is no time to work on something like that. Everything has to happen during a (paid) project, crap.

    Well, relocations are happening here, people are moving out of their rooms, to other blocks etc. and other people are moving in. Seems, that the people staffed for a project are "collected" to the same places. But this approach is not good for the people, who are staffed for several different projects. You can talk directly to the people of the project at your place, but it’s harder to talk to people of the other projects, because phoning them is not always successful and mail-responses take some time. TaskZilla smoothens this a bit, but… well, its not a nice solution. And much time is lost with moving, reconfiguring network access and so on. Luckily I’m not affected, but I feel some sort of isolated a bit, since few are left around me who work on the same project (and none, who works on the same product).

    Last Saturday, there was a big "Personality Test" on TV. I took a look at it, to "find out more about me". Well, I’m a Rational/Inventor (german, detail). Expected something like this, but didn’t think that it fits that good. Only few things are wrong, ie. I don’t think, that I’m charismatic 😉 But that lies in the eye of the viewer.

    Want to take a test yourself? Here (german).

  • Taskzilla progress

    Wohoo… The TaskZilla train is rushing in, usage increases, migrations are running and task numbers are rising 🙂 Now got a helping hand for the design of the stuff. I’m not really a good designer, I’m much better in implementing an already created design. But being creative (in arts stuff) myself is not my thing.

    Seems, that I will have to introduce an separate "New Task"-page for PM’s to better meet their requirements and to split the PM-stuff apart from the initial developers-page.

    Offtopic: My girlfriends C++ – teacher is a moron. Or is it common to build the double-include-prevention like this:

    #ifdef include1_define_h
    #include "include1.h"
    #endif

    additionally inside the headerfile itself there is another check, where it belongs to. brrrr Imagine the code-block in one of our source-files where 20+ includes occur. And now the teachers reason for such idiotic stuff: "Because the application runs faster if it has not to open the include-files twice"…. Gosh, C++ is not VB, go back to your QBasic editor, if you don’t know the difference between interpreted and compiled languages! Save your and (more importantly) your students time.