Busy Work Weeks

I’ve been busy the past few weeks with projects at work, production issues, and support of an extremely old and out of date piece of software. The project is on a successful track so far. This project is the upgrading of the extremely old and out of date piece of software. Preliminary testing is going to start this week. There are some technical difficulties to overcome and migration paths to lay out. Overall, I have an upgraded version of the software and it appears to be mostly working. Not bad for a first pass at an upgrade on something that is over 4 years old in age, highly customized and 13+ releases behind.

Another side project has knocked my computer off the network, while I work on the issue. Apparently, AP uses a separate third party tool to print their checks. The software is loaded on only one machine, and the lease is up for that machine. The first attempt failed on moving the program. After looking around at stuff, I found that they have not archived any of the payments files since they installed the program. There are over 4000 payment files and 3 gig of data in a single folder out on the network. It takes over 5 minutes to do a task in that folder. It is time to zip and delete all of those files.

While, they are zipping I’ll work on my updates.