So there is a tool maintained right now by a single person, but he
does not really want to do it anymore, so the business unit came to us
and asked if we could take over.
I work for a subsidiary of a big tech company, that means a lot of
legacy stuff. This one is no exception. It uses a web gui framework
that died around 2014, but some guy picked it up and does some updates
to it. Even more than that, he offers support in form of a forum web
site for 3000€/a. And they're paying for it as they do not have the
man power nor the know-how to switch to some more modern framework.
Otherwise the tool we are supposed to take over is written in C#, has
an MS SQL backend and lives behind IIS. The original programmer is
already a pensioner. That does not mean the code has to be bad, it
certainly was good in 2011 when they started developing it. And at
least they are using the company's own GitLab instance for version
management.
I'm interested as nowadays I only do scripting and supporting others
and fixing some bugs. It would be a welcome change to do some C#. I
almost forgot C# and right now I want to do some documentation for
myself based on MS's docs. There are so many new things in the
language I do not know about.
Unfortunately I quickly forget things, so I have to do my own how-tos.
If I'm not forced to try and sum up what I've learned then it's
instantly forgotten.
That's why I am still working on summing up the things I've learned
about OpenBSD. I want to do something similar for C#, too.
## Windows update
On Monday I will be in the office once again as there has been a huge
Windows update released by the IT. As my colleagues already reported
some serious issues with it, I thought I'll do the update in the
office where I have the opportunity to go straight to the help desk if
something goes wrong.
## Fog
Early today we did a short tour with our car to just move it. There
was a thick fog everywhere and for a while we were stuck behind a
tractor as I did not want to risk overtaking it as I did not really
see anything in that shroud of fog.
