As can be surmised, the more work I take on the more my quality has dipped. This is not as a result of my work ethic but rather the need to compact three full-time equivalents' jobs into a single full-time equivalent's day plus a few hours. Although the quality issues have been extremely minor and have resulted in no downtime, I still feel that zero quality issues are needed in all circumstances.
To illustrate the dynamic nature of the position I have grown into (and many other Dynamics AX developers are facing), in the short time since I started writing this entry this morning, I have already had the following requests:
- Researching a Windows 7 64-bit driver for a USB WiMax adapter
- Reset an AD password
- Clear out space on a linux server drive that had become full
- Get the application back up and running that failed on the linux server as a result of the out of disk space issue
- Have our corporate nagios administrator setup an alert to ensure we are notified when the drive becomes 80% full
As you know, AX development is the majority of my job, but as you can see, systems administrator is now a part-time position for me.
With all that being said, the subject of this blog is changing to focus on helping the small-shop AX developer, who has other duties besides development, move towards having a very low error injection rate into the AX code they deploy.
David Bowles
