Today was a good day

Today was a day I wasn't looking forwards to. It's not often that I wake up and think to myself "oh no, I've gotta do that thing today", after all I'm a firm believer in the idea that You are what you Think and so I try to see things in a positive light.

However today I had meetings scheduled from 9am until home time at 4:30pm, with the bulk of the day taken up training a member of staff in our new CMS and a basic primer in HTML, and I'll be honest I was expecting a bit of a fight about how html wasn't part of their job description. However I have to say that my fears were misplaced, totally misplaced it turned out. The CMS went down well with this initial training session and we were quickly getting comments like "This used to be so difficult in our old system, I can't believe how easy this is in the new one". I've come away from the day on quite a high, although only partially complete the project my team is working on is being very well recieved, it is making other staff members jobs easier which is making them happier and that makes me happy. We're doing a good job, I shouldn't have woken up with that thought - I should have rephrased it and seen it in the light of an opportunity to find out what we can do to make our product better.

True all development needs testing by the end users, and testing often to make sure that when the project is finally delivered it does the job it is needed to do and not necessarily the job people thought it should to do. I guess it was a case of just wanting people to approve of what we'd spent some time working on and see the good in it; I'm proud of the code I write and the products I contribute to so naturally I want others to feel the same way.