December 17, 2006
Last Thursday night, Simon's team had a Christmas party (#3 in my marathon) at Simon's house. We had agreed at the previous week's team meeting that we'd do an exchange gift at the party.
Being the total geek that I am, I volunteered to write a program to generate the exchange gift assignments. I fired up Visual Studio 2005 and coughed up a C# exchange gift program in less than 15 minutes, whose source code you can download free of charge. Granted, automating the process is not as fun as drawing names from a jar, but it does have its advantages:
Being the total geek that I am, I volunteered to write a program to generate the exchange gift assignments. I fired up Visual Studio 2005 and coughed up a C# exchange gift program in less than 15 minutes, whose source code you can download free of charge. Granted, automating the process is not as fun as drawing names from a jar, but it does have its advantages:
- It doesn't require everyone to be physically present at the assignment drawing.
- It's faster than the manual process.
- By allowing the user input of a seed for the random, the assignments can be recreated in the future.
- I had much more fun than if we had drawn names from a jar.
Labels: .NET, C#, Christmas, exchange gift, geek, gifts, programming
September 12, 2006
(Relax, I'm still working for HP.)
At Shé's recommendation, I've been in contact with Bianca Deloso (New Business team at HP) about the possibility of conducting some C# training for a team that's going to be supporting a .NET application. I told Bianca I was interested and she was happy to have me help out. The training's going to be very basic and the team already has Java experience. And it certainly doesn't hurt that I have teaching experience and those C#/.NET slides that I made for my summer class. The details are still being finalized but I'm already "porting" my material to the HP presentation template before the training days begin next week. Thanks for the heads-up, Shé!
This is a tremendous opportunity for me to increase my value for the company. Simon (my manager) lauded me for my initiative and he has no objections as long as I fulfill my other duties. Personally, I feel great that I'm being proactive in building my career; it's so much better than just being a spectator.
Work at HP is turning out to be really exciting. And I'm only on my second week!
At Shé's recommendation, I've been in contact with Bianca Deloso (New Business team at HP) about the possibility of conducting some C# training for a team that's going to be supporting a .NET application. I told Bianca I was interested and she was happy to have me help out. The training's going to be very basic and the team already has Java experience. And it certainly doesn't hurt that I have teaching experience and those C#/.NET slides that I made for my summer class. The details are still being finalized but I'm already "porting" my material to the HP presentation template before the training days begin next week. Thanks for the heads-up, Shé!
This is a tremendous opportunity for me to increase my value for the company. Simon (my manager) lauded me for my initiative and he has no objections as long as I fulfill my other duties. Personally, I feel great that I'm being proactive in building my career; it's so much better than just being a spectator.
Work at HP is turning out to be really exciting. And I'm only on my second week!
