Month: May 2003

I said “once” too

[Quote] “If you stop something after the first iteration, how many times have you gone round the loop? . . . if you’re talking to computer scientists they’d say ‘once’.”

Those crazies start counting at zero, too. [Quote]

Found in the comments on this blog entry by dave hyatt.

I nearly sprayed my monitor and keyboard with mountain dew expelled nasally when I read it. (ouch)

That was a little odd…

I just got a phone call from my first head-hunter. She’s sending me her contact info, and I’ll probably be forwarding my resumé to her this afternoon. We’ll see what happens.

Her agency is Game Industry specific, and she already knew a lot about the situation here. I wonder who she’s already talked to.

Edited on May 5th 2003, 16:59 by Hooloovoo

T -60 Days and counting

I wasn’t going to post about this for a couple of weeks, but…

Is anybody interested in hiring a web developer with 4 years experience in the video game industry? There’s probably going to be a blue-haired-freaky one available to start in early July, (or possibly sooner.)

Sucky way to end the week, but at least I got some warning.

I can’t believe how much crap is on my company’s webserver.

Not having much else to do this afternoon, I figured this would be as good a day as any to make sure there was a recent archive of the contents of my company’s web server.

I fired up an ftp client, logged in and began transferring the contents of the web root to my HD. I’ve been babysiting the process, just in case the connection gets dropped (the server can be cranky sometimes) and I’m amazed at some of the stuff I’ve discovered thus far.

Product sites in multiple locations – backups of backup directories – crap from 1998/1999 that should have been deleted, (infact I was under the impression that it had been) – entire directories with names like europe.deleteme and wwwboard_est_mort which should probably go.

I’m currently downloading product patches that aren’t even supposed to be on the web server – that’s what the ftp servers are for.

I knew there was some cruft on the box, but I had no idea how bad it was. I’m starting to wonder if the 14GB I have on my workstation is going to be enough. Once this stuff is downloaded archived to CD, I think I’ll go in and start cleaning out the crap.

UPDTATE: I started this process at about 4:30 this afternoon it is now 10:40. I had to restart the transfer a few times because of our cranky webserver. (Not from scratch – just from the last file to get transfered before being dropped.) Final tally: 4.31GB used by 73,162 Files in 2,093 directories. I think I could easily cut that amount in 1/2 without thinking about it (by dumping the backups of backups, “working%20files”, “resource.frk” “_vti_cnf” and the like) I could probably reduce that even more by going through and getting rid of some of the other crap that doesn’t really need to be there.

Looks like I have a project for next week: the web-monkey version of spring cleaning. 🙂

Edited on May 2nd 2003, 05:43 by Hooloovoo