HYPERAXE

Today, there are some weird things that occurred to me but at the same time it makes me feel good about what I’m doing at work.

There was this problem with our continuous integration server running Cruise Control .NET wherein our team project’s build process had been failing for 2 weeks. I wish I could have fixed it right away, but I had no access to the server and I’m not really sure if I should really mess around with it since there’s an administrator in-charge. So in short, I just informed my manager about it last week and told him why I am not able to fix it. It was only yesterday morning that a senior software architect raised a flag about the problem, and then people started moving to fix it.

It was night time in our offshore office and most of the technical people are either too busy with a lot of things or had already left the office. So I decided to take on the job of fixing the server and asked for access and permission from the server administrator. I’m glad I was finally able to login to the server and was very hopeful to fix things. Honestly speaking, Cruise Control .NET is quite new to me so I really had no clear idea on where to start troubleshooting. Since my Visual Studio 2005 kept on crashing, I had to rely on command-line tools to fix things up and test the different build configurations locally. Anyway, to make the long story short I was able to resolve the problems last night after playing around with the configuration files. After which, I sent out an email to all the development teams to announce that Cruise Control was working again. And so I took a rest and ended the day.

Early this morning I was surprised to receive an email from our Vice-President thanking me for a job well done. At first, I didn’t know who he clearly was since I’m still new to the company, but when I saw the signature at the end of the email, I got confused on as to how to respond to the email, especially that our local office director got a CC of the email. Anyway, I just humbly replied that I was glad to be of help. When I went to work, I was still wandering why the Vice-President would take time to thank me? I mean, I don’t really think what I did was really a major thing or something really extra ordinary and I even think that what I did on fixing the problem on the Team Foundation Proxy Server before might be more significant than this but I didn’t get a thank you email then. While still at lost on the email I received another email from our local office director praising me for my good work and for taking ownership of the project and the initiative to fix things. Another puzzling thing about it was that, all the managers got a copy of the email. Whoah! Why? I mean, if the director wanted to thank me, why include all the managers and not just the manager I am working for? I just kept silent about the incident with my colleagues so as not to stir up any issues. I believe, it’s really nothing special.. but then I’m still puzzled about the turn of events. The big question “WHY”, still lingers on my mind.

Anyway, what my bosses did today are really very helpful in boosting the morales of the employee. I mean a simple employee like me being appreciated by the higher ups, really makes a difference and maybe improve the way we work. For the bosses, just keep it up!

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