I was unable to participate in the Staff Development becuase the OUR (Office of University Residences – Campus Dining staff were there too) Office meeting this morning went quite long.
For the 2nd half of this term, I was invited to the OUR meetings (which happen to partly overlap my StaffDev time. They are only every other week, and this was the last normal one. In two weeks, the office staff is having a retreat, so I’ll miss my development time altogether.
Fortunately for Residential Computing, John is taking full advantage of the StaffDev time – and he and Paul seem to be learning lots. Every few days he shows me something new he can do/figured out with MRTG. I think after some work, it’ll be a very nice tool to integrate into many applications. Specifically for me, I want to use MRTG as a reporting tool inside our PL/SQL applications.
John will also be coming with me to the OUR retreat. It’s nice to be a part of more than one staff. It can be weird sometimes too, but mostly it’s nice).