{"id":348,"date":"2005-09-02T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=348"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:36","slug":"six-weeks-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Six Weeks of&#8230; Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my last day on a project in which I wrote some XSLT and an XML Schema for this web service front end thingie for a large service information database. I&#8217;ve been doing this for six weeks, or about two months calendar time, and while it hasn&#8217;t been the most rewarding of projects in terms of intellectual challenge, I&#8217;ve had some fun in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Today, on my last day, they changed the design of the whole application. No more XSLT, no schema. We won&#8217;t need them, thank you very much. Actually, no web service beyond an ftp service left masquerading as one, either, but I was never involved in any of the Java coding, so I don&#8217;t care about that. What I do care about is that I just spent six weeks of doing, it turns out, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is what you live for when you&#8217;re a consultant. Usually, they won&#8217;t throw away what you&#8217;ve done until you&#8217;ve left, but it does happen, and it just did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my last day on a project in which I wrote some XSLT and an XML Schema for this web service front end thingie for a large service information database. I&#8217;ve been doing this for six weeks, or about two months calendar time, and while it hasn&#8217;t been the most rewarding of projects in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}