It’s been one hell of a week at work. After the launch last week, we unveiled a truckload of problems with our backend admin area. The non-tech people didn’t quite understand the meaning of “test” until it was too late it seems. So this week has been full of me trying it put out various small fires; sometimes more than one at a time.

I promised the bosses wife (who is also an employee) that we’d have things fixed by the end of the week and by golly, I think we did it. There is, of course, still some tweaking to be done, but for the most part, we have a functional application that is head over heels above the previous version.

We got the go ahead on a public IP for our self-hosted staging server today, so if things work out by the end of the day, things will be back to order on the development side of things too.

I am really getting comfortable in this company and I can see myself sticking with these people for a long time. Just today, Neal, one of my bosses, walks in and announces he bought us all a massage this afternoon. I think the overall response from all of us was a collective “Whoohoo!” I guess they have a masseuse come in every couple of weeks for the travel agency and Neal decided since we’d all been working hard on the launch that we deserved a massage. I may have to start scheduling regular visits, because I really could benefit. I guess sitting at a comptuer all day (in a chair without armrests at work) is torture for your back. Go figure.