I swear, every time I go to actually code something, I feel like I'm back in the beginners' class. I've read 'How to Program' articles and books so many times, I feel like I could teach the course. Yet every time I sit down to write something, I feel like I'm back at square one. I guess learning never stops, even when you're learning the same thing over and over. Sheesh.
Anyway, I've been stuck in documentation land lately. It's been good, finally getting some things down on paper. Well, up in HTML anyway. I'm moving all of my documentation to our local intranet site, and with good results so far. The network and system diagrams have been a big hit. I've been slowly learning MS Visio over the last couple of years or so, and it's really growing on me as a diagramming program. I just recently finished setting up the complete picture of all servers and a short description of the network layout. I'm hopefully going to get to the network detail drawing today. The cool part was setting custom properties for all the objects. You can put in as much or as little detail as you need, and when you export it to a web page, it becomes a clickable image map. Just control-click on any object, and you get the details spelled out on the side of the screen. Nice stuff.
The other piece of doco I have to do today is the backup setup for the user workstations. I've stopped trying to use the enterprise products since they're such a hassle to set up. Instead I'm just using the local backup utility to get things set up. It writes a single backup file to a local server, and the enterprise backup software just comes along and picks it up when the jobs run at night. Cool. I get a complete backup of the user data every night for a four week rotation. Life is good in user-land today.
Enough for now. More later.
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