The Intern

09:00 I actually have work.
12:00 I actually worked all day.
12:05 Going out to dinner with collegues. Someone had their lunch with them and didn’t eat it, but instead hid it under the chair of the one driving. Funny stuff. Especially when he discovers this in a few weeks when his car smells like DEATH.

09:00 Picked up a car and a GPS. I feel so important
11:00 Did some analysis for a company that makes grass. Not the fun kind that gets you high, but the boring one they feed to cows.
13:00 Boring day. Did get to drive a fast car though. And be called ‘Sir’.

09:00 Found a cool tool on TCP (The Code Project) to view assembly dependencies. Very useful when Sharepoint errors on: “Could not load assembly something.dll… or one of it’s dependencies.”. If it can be written as a simple c# project, why can’t Sharepoint have this functionality. Probably a security issue.
11:00 VS keeps build-crashing on me. Every single time.
11:45  Found out why. There was a directory  with images over 130 MB. It didn’t crash, it just took over 45 mins to build.
12:00 I joined the company-trackmania game! And finally got it to run on Vista!
13:03 VS locks up when I try to remove the directory with images…
16:11 Kneedeep in XML (machine.config)

9:00 Arrived! I was gonna be early. But then some idiot crashed his car on the freeway. 45 mins…
9:52 reading a tutorial about moving Sharepoint layouts/websites from dev to live. The first sentence:

Now to explain, let’s first take a look at the challenge (note: I’m not calling it a problem, it is a challenge).

14:00 I am so great. The last MANY hours I spent on trying to get the master page from the MOSS to WSS. The key was in a simple and detestably unnecessary assembly reference. That would be the first place to look you say? Yes normally, but not when you get the amazingly thorough errormessage: “File Not Found”. Not a 404, but a Sharepoint generated message: “File not found”. Back to work!
14:40 Found a funny bug in ASP.NET. If you comment ASP controls (f.e.: “<!– <asp:Conten…”), it will of course not get parsed, or displayed. ASP does however recognise it when it is going over the code to see if all required assemblies are present. Which is stupid, because commented code should be ignored at all times. I discovered this because I got an error on an assemblyreference for a control that didn’t work (because I didn’t have the assembly, duh). It was in comments, but I still got the error. Deleted the codepart and no more error. ASucksP.
16:30 Boy o boy. Have been fiddling with Sharepoint for the better part of 2 days now, install, uninstall, reinstall, … Apparantly the Install of Sharepoint messes with Citrix Network Neighborhood. Unfortunately I didn’t know this, and thus saw no need to warn the System/Network Administrators of the company on who’s webserver I was doing the fiddling. Citrix’ burning down down down down.

09:00 From tomorrow on, I will no longer be working alone on this project. Someone will assist me and coordinate me. Thank god. For today I have been given the task to initiate the connection between the Web-server and the SQL/NAV-server. They are on the same network, but not on the same domain. But, sharepoint needs to be installed on the webserver.
10:00 Erroreded! IdentityNotMappedException during Sharepoint Config. Possible solution found here, but I first have to get permission to install SQL server on this machine. I fiddle with my fiddle.
11:40 I just fixed it. If anyone ever reaches this website with the same problem, here’s a nice workaround.
11:41 I forgot to order food.
16:00 Spent the rest of the day trying to configre Sharepoint. And failed.

09:00 Can’t wait for tonight.
09:05 Nobody has built or probably even opened my project since last time I was here (week ago). Of course, why should we hurry? We have time until november last year.
09:57 Sooooo hungry… So hungry I could ride a horse. I don’t get it.
10:30 Bossman offered me a position at this company. Apparantly I’ve proven worthy. Tomorrow we have a meeting about it.
13:20 My order system is coming along, bot nicely and uglyly.
14:22 Discovered so many great new bands/songs on my trip to V. Arcade Fire, Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll, Wir Sind Helden…!

“It’s Indie rock and roll for me…

16:40 Next week will be hell. Visit from a good friend, but have to work so time spent will be severly limited. First presentation must be finished. Deadline for a software project that will never get finished. Meetings about next weekends orientation. I hate having a busy life.

09:00 One of my collegues just sold me his old cell phone. Issasmartfone! Wiff winnows!
10:00 Tomorrow around this time I will be a coupla thousand feet in the air. Flying to Vienna.
13:00 Uneventful day. Have been alone for the most of it. Website is coming together, now have to create the order management system. Thank heavens I don’t have to do any layouting. Or it would probably look like this.
15:00 Teachers at my school FAIL at MS Office. Let’s give our templates a professional look by using a custom TrueType that no one has on his computer. “TodaySHUltra”! Now no one will be able to view it properly, real professional. Oh and we’re not allowed to change anything, cause it’s a template.

09:00 The new Damien Rice cd is great!
09:30 The new Bloc Party cd is great! A song about d&d.

Silver slugs, Lined up like bullets
Roll the twenties, They disappear

10:00 I brought my headphones. Now I don’t have to listen to other peoples phone calls all day!
11:00 The website I’ve been working on for the past 2 days actually looks like a website now! Amazing!
12:00 I have decided that there will be NO MORE working during my lunchbreaks! I shall use this powerful tool: the “Headphones” to un-communicate myself from the rest of the office, and I shall watch Death Note, undisturbed, while eating a sandwich!
15:00 Progress is slow. ASP.NET is tiresome. Especially when it’s datacentered, and there is no decent data. “Yes well, someone has to resize all the images, so just ignore that for now.” “Oh that table isn’t populated, well… it will be in a while.”.
15:04 The deadline of my ASP.NET project is… november 2006.

8:40 I’m late, and it’s valentines day. I wonder how this could’ve happened.
9:40 I hate ASP.
10:40 My first project just got feedback. What worked perfectly here (starting an automatic numbering from a given number), horribly failed and started arbitrarily from 100 regardless of the given number. I’m probably gonna spend the rest of the day to try and emulate this bug in my test-environment. Goody gumdrops.
11:07 First coke of the day. I just asked for an external monitor. And got a keyboard. Again.
13:59 This is proving to be a very long day. I still hate ASP, but will probably be working with it for another week or so. And my collegue is trying to install Windows a on touchscreen pc without a CDROM drive or a FDD. Only 4 USB drives and a non-USB compatible BIOS. The worst part is that he never stops to talk.

9:20 The Everything-machine has, besides soup-, hot chocolate-, coffee- and tea- brewing capabilities, also the ability to make a killer Choco-coffee. It’s chocolate so it’s delicious, but it’s caffeine so it’s good for you!
9:30 I am the SQL master! Quiz of the day, what does this querry do?

SELECT *
INTO Table2
FROM Table1 AS T1
WHERE T1.email NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT email FROM Table2 AS T2 WHERE T2.ID < T1.ID)

12:05 Ham sandwich!

15:52 Wow! I almost fell asleep.
15:53 I’m awake…
16:00 It is as I feared. I will have to make something in ASP.NET. Of which I know nothing. Tomorrow!