Sunday, February 06, 2005

Working hard, crazy but interesting...

After one week presure in working, we were going to do a stress test in customer site on this friday. Unfortunatily, the machine came until this Wednesday night. Yes, that means I must finish the system tunning within one days. How can I do that myself ? My ex-boss said "don't worry, the original company will help us to tune it. Just contact with them". When I trid to call them, some of them were in holiday already, and some no one answer the phone. Geesh, that is the original support ? But thinking on their side, I wouldn't pick up the phone either especially before the long holiday. No other way, I only could rely on myself. At least the Original sent me a doc about the system tunning.

On Thursday afternoon, my colleague told me the stress test could postpon to Saturday, because they were going to upgrade their system on Friday. Good, I got one day more.

On Friday, I had done different kind of system design to speed up the process time, but all in vain. So I asked for Original help again. I sent them the project file to them and wait for their good news.

On Saturday,The Original gave me an advice "use the newest version". I didn't have any other choice. Then I downloaded the new version,burned it on CD, installed it on the new machine.
It's almost 14 o'clock. I even don't have enough time to retest. After redeploied those project file, turned off the machine, packed all stuffs, I was ready to go to customer's site to show them the bad test results. My colleague told me they worked off at 3:30 pm today. What !? It's almost 3 now, so we must wait after the long holiday. I continued those unfinished tests, and I was shocked with the testing results. They were so great and unbelivable. Maybe it's just because the new version and new parameters. Finally, I felt better (wouldn't got fired). In the begining, we all thought it's mission impossible. Now, hope everything will go smoothly.

1 comment:

Gavin said...

Thanks dar for correction

After one week of presure at work, we were going to do a stress test at customer site on this friday. Unfortunately, the machine came until this Wednesday night. Yes, that means I must finish the system tunning within one days. How can I do that myself ? My ex-boss said "don't worry, the vendor will help us to tune it. Just contact them". When I tried to call them up, some of them had gone for holiday, while some of them refused to answer the phone. Geesh, is that the kind of support from them? On the other hand, if I were in their shoes, I wouldn't pick up the phone either. After all, who would have the mood to work when the holiday is round the corner. No other way, I could only rely on myself. At least I was given a doc by the vendor on the system tunning.

On Thursday afternoon, my colleague told me that the stress test could postpone to Saturday as the client need to do a system upgrade on Friday. Good, I got one day more.

On Friday, I had done different kind of system design to speed up the process time, but all in vain. So I asked the vendor for help again. I sent them the project file to them and hoping for some good news.

On Saturday,The Vendor advice me to use the lastest version. Given no choice, I downloaded,burned into CD and installed it on the new machine.
It's almost 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I don't even have enough time to do retest. After redeploied those project file, turned off the machine, packed all stuffs, I was ready to go to customer's site to show them the bad test results. My colleague told me they worked till 3:30 pm today. What !? It's almost 3 now, so we must wait after the long holiday. I continued those unfinished tests, and I was shocked with the testing results. They were so great and unbelivable. Maybe it's just because the new version and new parameters. Finally, I felt better (wouldn't got fired). In the begining, we all thought it's mission impossible. Now, hope everything will go smoothly.