Software

Well, I thought this was a 1.5 day job in Alameda so I budgeted 2.5. As it happens, however, it’s going to be 4.5 by the time I’m done, and that’s only after farming out some of the grungy verification details to other specialists, all to be completed before New Years. (I doubt I made any friends among that group with this last minute chore.)

A holiday, an extra “sick” [of work] day, two days of “office” and one to figure out some demos for a web-based class, that was my week.

Whenever we develop training materials with labs, we have to be sure everything can be reproduced in the classroom. This means that not only must the steps of the labs be verified, but also that the lab systems themselves have to be in the same initial configuration for each class. For the instructor, this means that one of his/her first jobs before starting a new class is to re-image the lab systems back to that initial configuration.