Repeat the mantra...

[mandolin]

"I will not mess with iMovie on a weeknight."
"I will not mess with iMovie on a weeknight."
"I will not mess with iMovie on a weeknight."
"I will not mess with iMovie on a weeknight."
"I will not mess with iMovie on a weeknight."
"I will not mess with iMovie on a weeknight."

Guh. It's amazing I got into work by 7:30.

*downs some caffeine and wanders off to useless status meeting*

Comments

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

I use DVD Workshop (similar, I think??) and I know the feeling. "I just want to fix this one thing... why is it taking so friggin' long to process??? Damn! Just have to try it again..."

And sympathies on the meeting... 90% of meetings (at least) are totally useless. I think the amount you get done in a meeting is inversely proportional to the number of people present (even worse if they're attending by speakerphone).

In this class I'm taking, they say the new thing in programming is 'Extreme Programming' - you do everything in groups - so you can spend hours arguing over every detail, no doubt. Who decided this is a good idea??

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

In this class I'm taking, they say the new thing in programming is 'Extreme Programming' - you do everything in groups - so you can spend hours arguing over every detail, no doubt. Who decided this is a good idea??

The same people who decided that the requirements team could CHANGE the requirements in the middle of development, I suppose.

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

You have requirements?? I get, "Write something based on our vague idea of what we want, and we'll tell you what's wrong with it."

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have this whole team of people tasked to take the stupid ideas the Usability Center throws at us and put together Detailed Functional Requirements (the dreaded DFR) for the developers - only to be told midway through the development, "Change this and this and this in the DFR. The developers can implement it in time."

Did I mention I work in a government office? :)

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

Wow, so do I - (are we both Feds?) - but I think it's a universal aspect of programming/applications development, Rach says the same thing.