So, it's another slow day at the office. As stated before, I work for the
Dutch National Bank these days, I create tools, which the Dutch banks can
use to report about their monthly financial transactions. Very hush hush,
no speaky or chitty chatty about it.
Bleh. Yeah right. Who the hell is interested in the code behind the program
that allows the least interesting bits of information from the banks to be
reported to the Dutch government? Please all rise.
Nah, didn't think so.
The fun-most part about this, by the way, is that anyone with even the least bit of computer sense can look up most of the code if they want. The reason is simple. We create this stuff by using a spreadsheet tool, which we fill up to the rim with macros. The beauty of it all follows in the next sentence. This spreadsheet slash development environment (as the now bankrupt manufacturers called it) works truly with WYSIWYG, what you see is what you get. If you want to link to a bit of code somewhere, you link to the cell in the spreadsheet it contains. You move the cell, you have to change all the referrals to both that cell and all below it. They all slide over one space, after all.
And they call this development. I feel like I'm in the Siberia of Computer Science.
Did I mention that they have no Internet connection here?
I don't you know.
Really.
Itīs like Gothique hinted at when I mailed her that I lack my IV-cord to the world. Look foward to me croutching down in a corner of the world, covered only by post-it notes, blowing spit bubbles and giggling aloud after every wind I break.
The good news is: I'm really racking up frustrations in here!
My frustration of the day: Software illiteracy is one thing, but to be forced to a 45-minute lunchbreak because the timekeepingtool can't handle variable lunch hours? Cīmon...