I can't believe it.. a full year has gone by since the day I was given the OK from Doug to begin development on what became Crescendo! I originally thought it would be a 4 month project, however the first 4 months of development I was only working 25 hour weeks because I was finishing off college. Midway through that I was given the task of providing tech support for almost 50 computers around the province answering every computer question and obscure problem possible which was a HUGE drain on my time. While working 9-5, I'd be lucky if I started programming by 1:00, sometimes 3:00 because the whole morning I'd be on the phone fixing stupid problems. I'll admit that since I'm supposed to be programming two huge projects at the same time and managing other people's projects I have not been able to put enough time and work into their network which is needed to solve their problems. The other day I handed the work off to Mike which is a huge load off my shoulders. It's slowing him down now but his work is pretty much finished at this point and this will allow me to finish my projects.

I'm on the final stretch now.. just another week or two of programming left and it will be release time! I'm also waiting for the phone call from Sean to tell me he's ready to assemble his workers for training. I'm so excited about this project because I've put in endless hours working days, nights and weekends all throughout the past year trying to get it done faster. Never being able to work for more than 20 minutes at a time without being interrupted certainly didn't help but hopefully now things will be much better. This project is so big, so complex, so well designed (at least I think so :).. It's all my design and programming (database, protocol messages, server and client).. and also the webreports is my brain child too. I walked our junior programmer through programming it exactly the way I want every step of the way and now it's done. Yeah I'm having a bit of a trip right now but I think I deserve it after all the hard work and dedication I put into it. I'm meeting with a salesman tomorrow who will be selling it nationwide. It does quarterly extracts to the Federal Government and we're going to try making it the national standard in it's industry.