Is what one of my buddies said to me the other night after I recoded a chunk of the admin section on his site, which allows for him to better manage his user accounts without having to use phpmyadmin. It is funny that I am now where I am at, as a developer, as opposed to being the IT guy. When I was in school, I hated everything about development because it was hard for me to grasp, but somehow my mind evolved and brought me to where I need to be. It is definitely a change of pace and it is cool not having to work with the end user; on top of that I get to learn more as I go along.
At work we are migrating from GoldMine to SugarCRM, and what a chore that is. I have had a love-hate relationship with SugarCRM for years now, emphasis on hate, but now that I am diving into the development aspect of it I feel more love for it. It is a really great platform, though it seems a little overly complicated to do some things, but with some time on my hands it helps that I can poke around and break things. Today I was able to write some custom logic hooks for the custom payments module Nick wrote. Basically, if a payment comes through that was rejected, a call is scheduled for the assigned user for the next day after the data import. I know what I wrote is probably a cinch for the guys who work with sugar more than I, but I was proud I could get something working.
Anyway, I have to get back to work, maybe I can detail things later.
Ryan Jauregui