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IronManBeta -> RE: Progress? (12/30/2004 2:56:11 AM)
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ORIGINAL: The Gnome
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ORIGINAL: RobertCrandall
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ORIGINAL: The Gnome
No worries! I'm just here trying not to chew my nails off lol. Seriously, you guys do a good job taking as long as it takes. Just wanted to let you know the customer base is pleasantly excited ;)
Hope you guys had a great holiday and enjoy the new year - Cheers!
Thank you for your very kind words, it really helps to hear them to keep our spirits up.
If by "great" you meant slaving away in a cold basement hunched over a computer comparing the game mechanics to the latest version of the rules to make sure that they all still synched, then yes, it was great! The wife and kids had some sort of holiday recently but heck, it didn't really cut into quality development time so it was not a problem. If only I had gotten some time off from my day job (apart from a snow day) then I really could have done a lot - but such is life.[;)]
Best of the season to you, cheers, Rob.
LOL, that's _exactly_ what I meant by great - now back to work! Just kidding, I know what it's like to code all day for the day job only to turn around and do it again at night. I support a small family business with software at night and man it can be awful after all my brain cells are ready to quit on me!
If I thought my fellow posters wouldn't stone me for suggesting it I'd tell you to take a day and do literally nothing. ;) Code problems always seem smaller with a little time away.
Doing nothing is what my day job is for! This used to be literally true. I was running a small software development company that was in maintenance mode only. It required me to be on site every day in case there was an emergency but basically I could just shut the door and work on Flashpoint for 5 or 6 hours a day. That was heaven. Ross Moorhouse was my project manager for FPG then and he called me there one day to introduce himself. He was worried that he might get me in trouble by calling but then burst out laughing when I told him what the situation really was!
A little over a year ago now I joined another company in the same line of work. I rewrote all the software from scratch in a manic 6 month period and now I spend maybe an hour a day writing code to expand it. The rest of the time I try to figure out telephone problems, server problems, banking problems, telephone chats with the 20 other people I work with and pushing a lot of email. I am a developer though and if I can't write code at work I am more than happy to do so at home. Odd, but this is what is 'fun' for me - the rest just pays the bills. If I could get a 'day off' I would just spend every minute on Flashpoint.
No joke, Rob
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