The Eric Wroolie Blog

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One of the nicest things about being a senior developer is getting called into a situation where someone has been struggling and you can help out. Someone gives you a call and you help as a professional courtesy. I love the feeling of looking at a few lines of code someone has been struggling with and type I’m a few characters to get it working in a few minutes.

“I’ve been working on that for days! I’ve read every forum post and couldn’t get it working! Thanks!”. Then I can act all cool and strut away. I’m a geek, but I’m the best geek.

One of the worst things is seeing a jumble of spaghetti code and trying to make it work. I do this most often. I clean up messes. I’m the janitor.

I’ve just finished a 3 week holiday and feel pretty relaxed, but also like things have moved on without me a lot. In the 3 weeks I didn’t even use the computer very much. However, I’ve been playing with the iPhone a lot.

I know there has been some bad press for the iPhone 3G, but I have to say that this is a very cool device. I’ve had no regrets for giving up the old qtek 9100 I was using before. The keyboard takes a little getting uses to (I’m using it right now), but the browsing experience Is fantastic. I can check baseball scores while standing in the lens room waiting for my kids to finish (I used to have to reads the instructions on the hand dryer or condom machine to entertain myself) and I can watch YouTube videos on the train. Definately cool.