The main writing phase for my book is completed. I wrote 7 nice chapters, and got 5 already reviewed. The editor is now working on 2 of them, and well i feel a bit empty :-) Nothing to do for the moment.
I also mostly completed the companion website. Its still a bit work in progress, but i want to keep the page “alive” during the next weeks, so doing an update every now and then.. good for SEO voodoo :-)

Symfony 1.2 beta 2 release was also a great success. We had some amount of work to do, but we did it. There are a few Milestones for symfony still this year, but they will come along smoothly.

At work everything is great, as usual, I love my colleagues. It is great to have them. Today I was again reminded that it was a good idea to join a small innovative company. I heard that my former colleagues, who were not sold to TCS already, will now get told that their office moves to Berlin… some 560km…
Which means that for most of them its like a lay off, but they won’t get any compensation… that really sucks.
There is just one thing that I don’t like here at the moment: One certain customer, where I work at their premises. Perhaps I am too picky about it, but I am the only one that spends almost every day 9-10 hours there.. And that just because there is virtually no planning of priorities or timings. There is also virtually no controlled development process. That left me today in a situation where I had to deploy software to test systems that was incomplete, not compiling or just wrong. I was the only one left at the office, figuring out how to get it deployed so that tomorrow morning testing can start.
So in that area my stress level is still on the raise…

Perhaps it is also the fact that I will never say: “No I leave now, figure it out yourself”. I am the one cleaning up after the party. And I am always looking for more to do. I really have to rethink what I learned during a coaching seminar: “Don’t let the monkeys on your shoulder”. I really have too many monkeys by now, and I need to coach people so that their keep their monkeys.

Sounds like a plan, lets see how well I execute :-)