8 weeks and ArcGIS later

I thought that I would have enough time to blog about my everyday experiences at ESRI. But going back to Tustin over the weekend to be with my family, learning python and reading an interesting book after work, turned out to be very time consuming. Right now I am testing a crawler that I wrote few days ago and seems to be doing running just fine, giving me just enough time to blog about my experience at ESRI.

The internship, that started on 19th May, 2008, is now in its 9th week. I have been doing some actual work which will be incorporated in ArcGIS 9.3 later on. But I am still trying to get the hang of ArcGIS. Learning ArcGIS and developing features that use ArcGIS is definitely something I am enjoying. In fact I am learning some fundamental things related to software engineering and development that I couldn't learn when I took courses related to these topics. That is why I strongly feel that Software Engineering courses shouldn't be all about documentation and diagrams.

The only thing bad about my whole experience so far has nothing to do with ESRI, its the weather. Redlands is very hot during the summer. It gives me a little strength, however, when my fellow interns tell me that its even hotter in Palm spring and people still go to work there. Ouch!

Well I guess I should be happy that I am not in Palm spring :-)