Days like today are tough. Things are failing left and right. I don’t really know what is happening. I don’t know what to do. Makes me want to quit and start looking for a new job! Really.
But I don’t expect things to be rosy. The bottom line? I am gaining experience as a development manager and I should continue doing it for at least a year. If after a year I feel like this is something not for me, I should then start looking for a new job.
So, in either way, I have to make it work at least until the end of summer 2008. I will re-evaluate things then.
I am trying to make changes. I will make changes and I will make this a better environment. The only blocker is that some things are unmaintainable. Things are so complicated that I don’t feel like touching them. It’s horrible. I don’t like this situation.
One of the first things I am going to try to institute is a TDD style of code development. I just think this is how we’re going to write maintainable code. Pretty much the only way under our circumstances. It is going to take us some time to adjust, but over time, we will get better. Over time, we will develop high quality code. Plus, I think this is something that I can put on my resume.
Fabian fell of the bed today morning. Again. My wife said that he was moving around too much, probably because he’s in pain. And it happened. He fell off. This was not that bad. He did not cry too much. He takes pain very well. He is a great boy.