6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread

[Rawtid]

I need some help.

We have a set of metric data feeding from a spreadsheet, but need some sort of GUI so the end users can easily add/update the data. It's not just managing the spreadsheet, but also making sure it's modeled a certain way so it can feed into the dashboard and the users didn't really understand that. Things like having a unique ID for each metric, so when they made changes month to month, they would give two metrics the same number so the data would be off.

Anywho, back in the day I would have whipped up a Microsoft access form LOL, but I'm pretty sure that's not the latest technology? Any better suggestions?

I was paired to work with one of the software developers on my team, but I could tell by the meeting he was about to over complicate this. I feel I should just gather resources and create a solution on my own

 

[greenvale]

I need some help.

We have a set of metric data feeding from a spreadsheet, but need some sort of GUI so the end users can easily add/update the data. It's not just managing the spreadsheet, but also making sure it's modeled a certain way so it can feed into the dashboard and the users didn't really understand that. Things like having a unique ID for each metric, so when they made changes month to month, they would give two metrics the same number so the data would be off.

Anywho, back in the day I would have whipped up a Microsoft access form LOL, but I'm pretty sure that's not the latest technology? Any better suggestions?

I was paired to work with one of the software developers on my team, but I could tell by the meeting he was about to over complicate this. I feel I should just gather resources and create a solution on my own

Easiest is probably a sharepoint site or a Teams form that links to the excel in question

 

[Serious]

I need some help.

We have a set of metric data feeding from a spreadsheet, but need some sort of GUI so the end users can easily add/update the data. It's not just managing the spreadsheet, but also making sure it's modeled a certain way so it can feed into the dashboard and the users didn't really understand that. Things like having a unique ID for each metric, so when they made changes month to month, they would give two metrics the same number so the data would be off.

Anywho, back in the day I would have whipped up a Microsoft access form LOL, but I'm pretty sure that's not the latest technology? Any better suggestions?

I was paired to work with one of the software developers on my team, but I could tell by the meeting he was about to over complicate this. I feel I should just gather resources and create a solution on my own

I’m trying learn google apps scripts because no one on the team has FE experience.

But funny thing is,I’ve become the go to person for GIU interfaces since I figured out how to link access to SQL Server. As well as create simple forms.

 

[Rawtid]

Easiest is probably a sharepoint site or a Teams form that links to the excel in question

I’m trying learn google apps scripts because no one on the team has FE experience.

But funny thing is,I’ve become the go to person for GIU interfaces since I figured out how to link access to SQL Server. As well as create simple forms.

Thanks guys!! I asked ChatGPT and both Sharepoint and google were in the suggestions along with MS Access and something called Power apps, that I had access to which works like another form application called InfoPath that I used a few years back.

Power apps was cool, but I need to watch a video or something on it. I only tried the standard google forms but that didn’t give me what I needed, I’ll look more into.

I’m going to play around with our Sharepoint site too. I think we have a team site, just not sure of what permissions I have.

 

[OfTheCross]

I'm on the grind, gran hussle!





I just need to close 3 a day for the next 12 days and I'm all caught up. Let's GOOOOOOO

 

[ViShawn]

My company had a 4% RIF today. Luckily Sales wasn't affected.

 

[MoneyTron]

They really making me work at this job.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Been back at work a whole month and ain't done a damn thing. We've basically been on the bench because they can't get their shyt straight. Boss trying to maintain morale

 

[patscorpio]

I swear I get no reprieve from projects...keep getting thrown into one after another...on top of the fact that if you want to review the results of my test cases you should actually understand the damn application first...few things irritate me greatly than you looking for something and perceiving it wrong and you don't understand what the fukking test case is all about..and I end up repeating myself in multiple test environments for no reason...smh

 

[Macallik86]

I am taking a professional development course from a popular creator group called ZeroToMastery. Like many popular courses nowadays, they funnel students to their Discord for assistance/finding accountability buddies, but also to invest further in the brand and probably buy even more courses. Really smart idea.

They have it set up so that everyone ends up in the same introduction channel, even if you are taking different courses, and then from there, you can jump to your specific course's channel. What's getting to me is that the vast majority of people are taking Web Dev courses.

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like long-term, the clock is ticking on the industry. Microsoft Copilot is just the beginning, as it came out this week that OpenAI is hiring developers to make ChatGPT better at coding.

I could be wrong, but I feel like as more coders' tasks get delegated to ML, their wages will stagnate and/or their skillset will have to become extremely specialized/advanced. Yes, the average new person will be able to get a job in the next 1-3 years, but in 4-10 years I feel like they will have to do a hard pivot.

It reminds me how, for decades, my grandmother would always tell us "Work at the banks, you'll always have a steady job at the banks". It made sense for decades... until online banking made tellers all but obsolete. I feel like we have the same narrative about coding for decades, but we could be nearing the beginning of the end

 

[Rawtid]

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I know some folk tooling up for ServiceNow work and they ain't happy about it.

 

[Macallik86]

I know some folk tooling up for ServiceNow work and they ain't happy about it.

At a recent office party, the company I worked for celebrated a coworker's 20 year anniversary when he had only done 17 years to throw him some love because of how much he has publicly voiced his HATE for ServiceNow in the past year. I overheard him bytching to my boss, his boss, the SVP of Finance/Analytics etc.

I think the tool might make sense for standardized roles that have repetitive tasks/outcomes that can easily be made more efficient by a manager, but the more specialized your role is, the more it gets in the way imo. Getting the SME to explain why a task is getting rolled to the next week isn't really helping the company

 

[Rawtid]

I know some folk tooling up for ServiceNow work and they ain't happy about it.

They can hate it while getting paid like every other job.

 

[PrnzHakeem]

Day 4 on the new job. shyt is gravy working with a bunch of Canadians, they all polite and shyt.

A job I interviewed for back in November, I was not selected due to fit (I was probably overqualified and maybe asking for too much money, but they gave me no real feedback)
A different recruiter hit me up about applying for the manager of the job opening I was originally turned down for. Trying to figure out how petty I'm gonna be in my response.