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Iiiiiit's Tuesday! And that means it's blahgin' time. Yup, that's right, look for updates each and every tuesday. yay.

I guess I'll officially explain what it is, exactly, I do at my new job. I am classified as a Software Developer in the IT Department. For the past few weeks now, and continuing on for a couple more, I have been working on the redesign of and web page cryptically named xt_notify. Basically, the online university I work for advertises at different places in the world wide web. Though each site is a little different, they all capture essentially the same information about potential students. These potential students are refered to as leads. Now, all of the leads from all of the various sites are aggregrated by a couple of outside vendors, refered to as master vendors. Xt_notify, then, is the doorway through which leads pass from a master vendor to our prestigious database. Currently it is written in a scripting language which has been found to be poorly lacking in the area of error handling. That is, basically, leads are being lost and we are paying for it - literally. Therefore, it falls upon my newly christened coding shoulders to rewrite the same (or even enhanced) functionality into a more robust, error-handling savvy language.

Cool.

Also, whenever users of our various systems encounter errors (whether they be students, teachers, employees, what-have-you), emails are generated and tickets are sent. Today I started in on my first of what I'm sure will be many tickets. They're not bad, but they do not nearly approach the joy a rewrite (and redesign) holds.

Anyway, hope that helps better define the scope and vision of my humble new beginnings.

posted by _paul @ 8:22:00 PM