We have a process at work performing a number of tasks, one of which converts an Excel document into a CSV file. That particular task is done with a VB script that is called from a Batch file. Basically, the batch script does some stuff, calls the vb script to convert the Excel doc, and then does some more stuff.

Back in July I wrote a post saying I was going to be updating some of my repositories on GitHub. Well it’s November and I haven’t done much. What I didn’t mention in the post was my searching for a new job as a software developer. I did end up getting a new job. New career rather. I was a DevOps engineer in the manufacturing industry. Now I am an Associate Developer in higher education. It has been a great change and I love going to work each day.

I don’t spend a lot of time outside of work, working on software projects. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, I would just rather spend the time with my family. For the last few months I have had a lot of extra time, being furloughed 50%, and I have spent a lot of it with my family, and some thinking about the software projects I did in college. I don’t mean my homework. I mean the side projects I did to learn about other tech. If you scroll through my GitHub repos you will find an incredible lack of forward movement. Outside of this website, I haven’t done much of anything since December 2018 and that was just a little clean up so I could delete my Heroku account.

One of the summer jobs I had as a student at Iowa State, was working as a Research Aide at the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station (NCRPIS). I was on the Oilseeds team and while we did work with a few different plants, the bulk of the research was done on sunflowers.

Over the past year, I have developed a few custom tools for the software engineers at work to utilize within P4V, the desktop client for interacting with Helix Core (Perforce). These tools add some functionality to P4V that would otherwise be more difficult, or all together not possible. When new tools are added, or an argument changes, the SEs can edit the tool manually, or delete the tool and re-import via XML document.