Going through the list of my last post to see where I stand two weeks later:
- Windows XP instead of Linux or MacOS X.
Well, based on what I try to do with the OS (nothing, just work with it), it is OK. I installed a couple of Cygwin tools and XEmacs so I'm not completely lost.
- Outlook instead of Gnus/XEmacs
Oh how I miss Gnus. Thank God I only need to use Outlook for work mail. The rest of Outlook (address book and calendar) is fine, but the mail client is a joke. Threaded views? Outlook's mail sorting rules are dumb and limited - or I am limited, I don't know. "Outlook has removed the superfluous line breaks" - oh, thanks, who said they were superfluous? And it is really really hard to create a well formated plain text response to a HTML mail.
- VS.NET instead of XEmacs.
OK, VS.NET is quite usable. I've only found myself edit sources with XEmacs seldom - rectangular selections, M-x string-rectangle and search/replace with regular expressions are what I missed so far. I have edited solution and project files with XEmacs more than once, though.
- VSS instead of CVS.
I don't believe in the "only one can edit a file at a time" model, but other than that it works. Not that I feel save.
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Today is going to be my first day at my new job. My job title is "Chief Developer", I'll still be doing project management but my focus will move closer to development again.
My new employer is mainly a Microsoft technology shop (you in the back, I've seen that, stop giggling) which means I'll have to adapt to quite a few changes in my work environment:
- Windows XP instead of Linux or MacOS X.
- Outlook instead of Gnus/XEmacs - no, I won't start sending HTML-Mails or quote the messages I reply to at the bottom of my mails.
- VS.NET instead of XEmacs.
- VSS instead of CVS.
- Some technologies like Sharepoint that I never used an equivalent for.
Nothing on that list scares me, I've used Lotus Notes in the past and nothing can be worse than that, but in combination it means a really big shift and it'll be interesting to see how well I'm going to adapt.
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