2/28/2005
Help! I'm drowning in new stuff!
I've got the feeling at work that I'm expected to know something that I really know nothing about. I hate it when this happens. I sort of panic sometimes which only increases the mental blockage I feel when trying to learn something under pressure. The best thing to do in these cases is just admit you don't know WTF is going on here and work your best to come up with something ASAP.
Take the SM40 supervisory module for example. I'm writing a program to monitor this device for alarms via an RS232 interface. The physical layer code is already done, that was never really a problem. Where I run into strife is the S3P protocol the thing uses to communicate with the software. It's not really the protocol itself that's worrying - I've implimented plenty of different types before - the deadline in which to do it is the real mind-killer. It's exactly like a panic in real life except I can only frantically try to read and digest the spec and hope I'm going to get to the page which will put it all together for me.
Writing about this seems to help too, funnily enough. I think I've come up with a good enough question to aks someone who knows exactly how this stuff works how it's supposed to work.
relax...
relax...
Probably a 3-4 hour session to get this stuff done. Just wanted to share.
In other news, I'm now sharing a room with Anze. Moved upstairs to the big room (not the front one). Very decent view in comparison to what I saw looking from the window in the downstairs bedroom. I'll post a picture for those (and I know there's a lot of you! haaw) who've never had the joy of 333 before.
First thing I did was clean that bathroom, those girls are fucking discusting. I know guys get a bad rep for hygene (usually only from females I might add) but seriously, you should have seen their bathroom. I didnt know that orange mold crap could grow so thick, it was like a coat of primer or something.
Right, off to do more study on alarm state monitoring.
Take the SM40 supervisory module for example. I'm writing a program to monitor this device for alarms via an RS232 interface. The physical layer code is already done, that was never really a problem. Where I run into strife is the S3P protocol the thing uses to communicate with the software. It's not really the protocol itself that's worrying - I've implimented plenty of different types before - the deadline in which to do it is the real mind-killer. It's exactly like a panic in real life except I can only frantically try to read and digest the spec and hope I'm going to get to the page which will put it all together for me.
Writing about this seems to help too, funnily enough. I think I've come up with a good enough question to aks someone who knows exactly how this stuff works how it's supposed to work.
relax...
relax...
Probably a 3-4 hour session to get this stuff done. Just wanted to share.
In other news, I'm now sharing a room with Anze. Moved upstairs to the big room (not the front one). Very decent view in comparison to what I saw looking from the window in the downstairs bedroom. I'll post a picture for those (and I know there's a lot of you! haaw) who've never had the joy of 333 before.
First thing I did was clean that bathroom, those girls are fucking discusting. I know guys get a bad rep for hygene (usually only from females I might add) but seriously, you should have seen their bathroom. I didnt know that orange mold crap could grow so thick, it was like a coat of primer or something.
Right, off to do more study on alarm state monitoring.
posted by nascent at 2/28/2005 03:20:00 pm
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