So, I'm up to day 3 (or 4 depending on how you count) at Barkley. I must say I'm more than impressed with the company overall. There are few companies that you walk into on your first day and it feels like you have been their forever. There are even fewer that after a few days have past you really feel like your at home walking into the office. Barkley is one of those few, making you feel at home immediately and giving you a growing sense of that feeling over time (at least so far).
But, thats not what this is about. On Monday we got our laptops. These are lean and mean machines, duo core Mac based on the Intel processor, or at least thats what they tell me. Honestly I don't know how MS can compete with this so far. It's running a Windows distro faster than any of my machines at home and stability is really amazing.
Thats not to say I haven't had problems, oh boy have I had problems. To start getting Lazarus and other tools I'm used to installed has been anything but fun. In fact its been a hair removal process from hell. I now have almost everything installed and running, but can't figure out how to build any Lua or SDL applications and get them to run :(. Oh well, its not exactly part of my day job so IT isn't going to make the pain go away anytime soon, I'll fight it out and figure it out.
Yesterday (Tuesday) we got our Blackberries. This is one of those phones that comes with everything but a roll of toilet paper, and I'm pretty sure thats an option that you can get for it. Honestly, I hate this thing. It has more buttons and options then you can shake a stick at, it vibrates all the time (Voice calls, e-mail, text message, the time of day) and I can't figure out how to change it back to the default look and feel that they taught me how to use in class. Don't ask me how I managed to get it to a different look and feel, I don't know, all I know is nothing is where its supposed to be.
Thats enough ranting for now, look for more in the future.
- Jeremy
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