I just heard some bad news from my manager. Tom is considering leaving. He is fed up with the project and wants a change. He is ready and determined to do so. Up to the point that he will tell his manager that he will start a job search.
Whoa!!!
That’s not good. That might put our project out of business. I have been on it for only 5 months. We have Samir for a couple of weeks here. This is a very complex project and I don’t think I can handle it.
Could this be an opportunity for me to become a manager? Possibly. But do I want to be one on the project? We’ll see how the project rollout goes. This is a very complex project and it is not easy to change things. The architecture is complex as well. All in all, this is a very difficult/unrewarding project to be on.
Then there is a chance that this might be an outsider coming in and taking care of business. We’ll see.
I would like to stick around for another year or so; ideally for a year and a half.
I learned about ClassLoading today. We had an issue where the same project loads fine on one machine and cannot on other machine. We’ve been debugging this for a couple of days now. It turns out that either we had a jar file that was too big (50 megs) or that the classes that were loaded were conflicting. Either one can be a valid point, I think. The latter is the most logical. It’s a bitch, though!