Not The Best, But Still OK
Today was a little bit hectic. I attended NodeRED CON 2025 virtually and looked at presentations. At the same time, I was on Teams working with Sheppard IT to solve issues. Even though I do not get paid for the work that I do with Sheppard, the work that I do does add value in an indirect way. At the start of this year I said that I wanted to do things to move away from Sheppard and I have done a very good job of doing so. So let's look at what I do not have to do anymore for Sheppard:
(1) I do not have to check the splits file and do a manual update.
(2) I do not have to check the FreeFileSync application for sync lock issues.
(3) The number of services written by me that are now in use have been reduced significantly. So this means less to be maintained by me.
This means less opportunity for interruption away from my core work on my courses and other revenue generating ventures. In that sense, the day was well spent. I even had it down to write the code to move the TC files from Salmon to the shared drive. But now Amilio has done that so it is off of my plate. Another thing I got done today!
I also found a serious error with the overnight build and corrected it. And I got Amilio to look at the issue with the pricing of the bonds/etfs which led to looking at a bigger issue of code changes that JP has to make. That will solve yet another issue. Better for me.
The NodeRED conference has shown me how important NodeRED is and I think it would be a great edition to every one of my courses to use NodeRED to build a GUI to display data from a server/slave device for the particular protocol.
It was not the best day, but I still did OK.