Programming

Programming is my passion. The problem is that there aren't enough problems in the world that I have time to go at, and time is my biggest problem. Between full time work, three quarters time school, and family life, there practically is no time in which I can sit down and solve problems. Today however, I decided to tackle an older problem, which is soon to be solved in a better more practical way. Why'd I go to the trouble? I know you're screaming that at me through the glass on the front of your monitor right now. It was fun! Yes FUN :) The problem was quite simple, but involved multiple resources to solve. I simply wanted to create a program that cleanly uninstalled an application that we have (which uses msiexec for its installer) at work and then installed a foretold update to the system. Soon there will be an installer that performs upgrades, but I wanted to beat it, and beat it I did. It only took about two hours and the whole program is less that 200 lines of code. That's a pretty small program (including braces and comments). It too uses msiexec, creates a batch program, and calls the new installer from across the network. Anyway, I just wanted to say what fun it was!