Look, I know no one probably cares about this - but after my boss said ZERO about this today, and I spent a day thanking my team members - I felt I had to go somewhere to shout about it:

Last night we deployed the end result of 5 months of work on a web development project to our production servers. Deployment started at 7 pm and finsihed around midnight - during that time we had the rollercoaster up and downs during our QA testing of would it or wouldn't go in, and would we have to roll back. Bar a few minor bugs, it went in very smoothly.

This was my first web development project (I have a mainframe and data warehousing background), and as project manager I am damn stoked that we got it in exactly on time - we had a one day deployment window scheduled from a couple of months ago, and zero buffer in the project - and in it went, like clockwork on 11/01/07, which I think is pretty damn good.

I got home last night about 1:45AM, tired as fuck after a long day and a particularly stressful run up where the usual last minute bugs, deployment issues and freak-outs were being worked out, and of course I couldn't sleep due to being kind of wound up from the whole roller-coaster-stress effect. But today, things are looking good, apart form the sore throat and cold I now have.

To up teh stress level a notch or two, senior management decided in their infinite wisdom to start laying people off on release day!!!! We kept wondering if they were lying in wait for us when we finsihed the release!

Anyway, as I said at teh beginning, my normally cool boss said zero to me all day about the culmination of 5 months work and our text book on-time delivery. Way to motivate!!! I lavished praise on my team, everyone rocked hard, and despite difficulties, really came through!

Needless to say I will be catching up on some sleep and trying to get over this cold over the weekend.

Over n out from software development land....and back to the TOYS!!!!

fuck yeah! you go carl! congrats!

...YES

congrats dude..

as an application architect i totally understand where you are coming from. i work my ass off sometimes killin myself with stress and sometimes do not receive any acknowledgment at all.
i have a client that needs daily deployments with fixes of a offshore project gone bad. over 90 deployments since june. lolz.

nice work carl.

projects never get done on time and within budget

congrats on that amount of hard work paying off. Now it's Miller Time!

Congratulations, Muton, I know what it's like to get through something like this. My team just delivered our yearly 14,000 pages of documentation despite one of the team leads being hospitalized two days before the deadline. And of course, the day after, our manager came to us with every minute of the next four months planned out for us...

Medicate with equal amounts of zinc and poly vinyl chloride, you'll beat the cold. Feel better.

my girlfriend is a manager for a software company team and the hell thos epeople go through is insane. sometimes she pulls 20 hour days dealing withe engineers here and in europe. Antone that makes software has got brass yarblockles.

Did you also thank the QA team?

Absolutely! I hugged the functional QA tester when she announced teh final tests had passed! I'm waiting for the HR call.....

Hey, THANKS for the words guys - sounds like a lot of people here have similar experiences. Man, 90 deployments....I think I'd be dead.....

Wondered where you were! Will be good to see you around again.

Is that what you do? I thought you were an accountant... which one of you told me Carl was an accountant?

awesome carl...i hope your boss comes to his senses monday.