it's not that i hate my profession, it's that i hate all the stupid things related to it. i have just spent almost five hours going nuts over an issue with a java installation that *magically* got ruined sometime during the fifteen hours that i was out of the office.
nobody can tell when it happened, nor who's responsible, only that the backup copy we ended up working off wasn't set up correctly. when none of the problems make any sense, i point at gross negligence and say "i don't know who you belong to, but your owner deserves a smack upside the head and my pay docked from his".
i solved the problem within minutes of sending out an email to everyone to inform them that we might have to go a week without critical services...
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all that was just to compound today's general antagonism towards computers brought on by the flash project.
my AS3 debugging messages claimed that the conversion couldn't work because the movies i was testing with were compiled in AS2. i finally received a movie compiled in AS3 to test with... and that didn't work either.
so no conversion.
aside from the weekend hours wasted changing everything, i now have to take two steps back in the way that i deal with all the XML aspects of the code because they really did need to be as backward as they were in order to be AS2 compatible.
whoever designed the XML handling for AS2 is a complete asshole. i forgive the guy who wrote the code.
i now understand completely: flash is NOT for programmers. it's for masochist designers.
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