Shren,
It seems like you have everything under control. You
seem to know what to do to handle these tasks.
Granted, you may not know how to perform some of them,
all you need to do is do research from the internet or
read books about them or ask people who may know how
to do them. It just seems that you feel overwhelmed.
But you just take one thing at a time, you will finish
them sooner than you think. If you feel that your
boss is putting too much pressue, you need to be
honest with him and let him know that you need more
time to finish each task. Just communicate your
concerns and ask him for suggestions or help. You can
do it.
Hope this helps.
Pat
--- shren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has nothing to do with freeamp - just with
> the type of programming
> freeamp involves, and how big of a piece of work
> that is.
>
> I work for a company which will remain unnamed,
> and have for about 6
> months. The company is a new branch, and our
> buisness works about like
> this. For the system intense, thread needing
> processes, we use C COM
> objects. We then tie these together for different
> purposes.
>
> I write the COM components. I'm a relatively new
> programmer, with a
> college degree and about a year of work study under
> my belt, and I don't
> think I'm a bad programmer. The other two
> programmers hired to work with
> me have both been fired, so I work alone on this end
> of things.
>
> One component is a miniature database, which
> stores arbitrary pieces of
> data under a key. It has to be able to obtain lists
> of keys, sort and
> search by the keys, and, of course, return the data
> on command. (Is it
> just me, or is this the core of a relational
> database, and arn't such
> projects usually done by groups?)
>
> One plays Windows Media Audio files out of the
> database. Lest you think
> this is easy, I can't store the files in a normal
> file, so I have to pass
> these out through a socket, then recieve them back
> in over the socket.
> (This being a WMA solution I suggested about 6
> months ago on this group.)
> (Again, is this just me, or is this the core of a
> media player, and isn't
> this usually done by groups (with actual experience
> in media technology?))
> At one point it was also supposed to splice together
> sound files on the
> fly, but that requirement is gone.
>
> The last is a download manager that downloads many
> files down to the
> computer at a slowed rate, over HTTP. Other than
> the difficult fact that
> flow control isn't built into sockets, this one is
> pretty easy.
>
> My boss is starting to drive me crazy. He keeps
> changing which
> component I should be working on, wanting me to get
> a certain level of
> functionality done so he can release betas of
> project X or project
> Y. Then he tells me to work on something else. I
> work on one project for
> between a week and a month before having to bang
> something else out.
>
> My problem is, my boss has this attitude like
> everything should have
> been done weeks ago, like each of these projects is
> at most a one month
> project. He also acts like switching me between
> projects shouldn't delay
> my progress on any given project. He treats
> interface changes as "minor".
>
> Are these projects actually as difficult as I
> think they are or am I
> just being obtuse? Am I being treated as badly as
> I'm starting to think I
> am? Could one realistically expect one man to
> manage all three of these
> projects?
>
> Just venting,
> shren
>
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