Tales from a Developer

Today I had a great day at work again. Caution, the last sentence may include sarcasm.

I started at 6:30 am and finished some stuff up from yesterday. A coworker came into the office a little bit later (maybe around 7:15). He looked at his EMails and the IT-Script-Kiddy (maybe Senior Script Kiddy would be better?), an external consultant for our largest customer had written a mail to my coworker.

As a side note, my coworker, in this case, is one of the product managers who is responsible for the hardware integration of third parties.

Anyway, he showed me the mail. A problem with one of our products was there again. Interestingly the customer and its consultant did tests over the last couple of months to find problems we needed to fix. They’ve said they were done with the tests last week and no more problems were showing up.

Well, until yesterday. Obviously, the customer starts to work from tomorrow on with the new product, so it needs to be functional.

After digging through the logs I found out this particular new problem wasn’t on my side, so I handed it over to the responsible person. But I found another problem right inside the logs.

Great. I wasn’t able to reproduce it locally at our test servers but I managed to put a try…catch around the problematic place. A place where I didn’t think it was necessary.

The other problem got fixed through the day also, so we should be looking at an unproblematic start tomorrow. We’ll see what will happen when the customer puts load on this whole thing.