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Today's continued task... implementing a system that audits data collection point changes on 58 different servers.
For each server, add the task to run the vendor supplied command line tool that generates an XML output of any changes since the previous day. Place the files in a directory that will be copied to the network for parsing.
The parsing tool is written and working; the changes and e-mailed to administrators. Eventually, they will either be written to a database or copied to Sharepoint.
Almost done with the list...
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Sounds interesting! Seriously. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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At least it's something to do?
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I am currently having issues with a guy at work who think he's a great programmer and knows everything about what is the latest and greatest technology, but alas, is not.
I work in mechanical development, so pretty much anybody who knows how to write an Excel macro is Bill Gates here, just for you to get the picture. As a former embedded and desktop coder, I am lightyears ahead of this.
Now these people, and that particular colleague, get sometimes involved in SW programming, when they create tools helping the mechanical design or write interfaces between internal systems and matlab for instance. And this leads to terribly poor technology choices, oversized, or obsolete before they were born, or so terribly programmed that the code cannot be maintained.
The programming "guru" however has powerful persuasion skills, so he drives management, who have not the start of a clue (otherwise they would have known they need professionals to design software), into believing that what he does is the right thing to do - not intentionally, he is genuinely persuaded he is a know-how holder 
And this is eating up my patience. I am not directly involved in what he does, that is why I don't do anything about it, but I attend some meetings sometimes where I just could bang my head on the desk. To give you a feeling, it is as if you were looking over someone's shoulder and he would copy and paste 10 times the same code instead of making a for loop : it works, but gnngnnngn it is just plain wrong. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Why not take one of his apps, write it correctly and present it to management as they way it should be done if a professional programmer were able to do it. As I used to have in my sig: if you think a professional is expensive, wait till you try an amateur.
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Exactly my thoughts!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Because of time: this is no two-week task I am talking about here.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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