Well, actually, I do have a bit more food for thought. In a lot of ways, the things we consider challenging don't make a blip on management's radar or on the bottom line that The Important PeopleTM look at. I spent several months on a parsing project that saved another group from having to invest in fancy workstations that would have cost $100K a year, each, and another few months when I first got here building a specialized-environment launcher in shell script that is spreading rapidly throughout the whole lab as THE way to run eCAD tools, but neither of those apps has even been acknowledged.

What gets recognition are these simple little 'gluey' things that help people get their jobs done faster and more easily. The more basic the improvement, the more people it helps and the better things run. These silly little webifiers and spreadsheet dumpers aren't much from our perspective, but they sure do help things work better, and that's the real value in what we do.

In reply to Re^2: Just hammering nails... by samizdat
in thread Just hammering nails... by samizdat

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