Work has been so stressful this week. Probably why I have a scratchy throat and congestion (suppressed immune system under stress and all that). I really hope that clears up for the trip cuz I feel like crap right now!
My code is being thoroughly investigated to see if it is causing a major problem in our server. While we think it’s a bug in the server, we have to know how my code is triggering it (and, if that code is buggy itself). Everyone’s being great about not pointing the finger and saying “you broke a multi-million dollar website”! But it doesn’t have to be said.
So, I’m having high level architects ask questions “Why did you do this? Why not this?” And this bright a light is revealing all the dirty spots on my code (I’ll be the first to step up and say I don’t write perfect code).
They ran a load test last night just for this that probably cost several grand. That’s a good chunk of my yearly salary! gulp.
Relax. Most of us have been there, and those that haven’t will be. If you got it right, you’re a hero. If you didn’t, the answer is: “it’s a learning experience.”
March 23, 2005 @ 5:13 pmI know. They’re really good at work about “let’s learn from this what not to do in the future” and not placing blame…it’s just the fact that everything I did is getting such intense criticism. It will help me improve my programming, if I can survive the stress!
March 23, 2005 @ 10:11 pmSupport vibes sending your way. Any particular part of your anatomy you want the vibrations to be on?
March 24, 2005 @ 12:58 pmOk - I’m late to this one, but had to respond. We knew along this was an issue with our crappy app. server. Unfortunately, crappy app. server company says “This only happens with you guys - so we have to dig around through code looking for someway *WE* cause their code to break”.
Anyway to update anyone interested, this problem was proven beyond a doubt to be in the app. server code. Sorry for undue stress on Bobby.
– one of the guys shining the spotlight
April 6, 2005 @ 9:15 pmUh oh…another person from work has found my blog!
Better late than never.
I never really felt like there was any stress or focus placed on me that shouldn’t be there, I just wanted to know for certain there was a bug in their code and not mine. It felt good to have the JSP effort redeemed after it had run the gauntlet so to speak.
April 7, 2005 @ 10:09 am