Oh joy, oh rapture.
I'm a coder again. This is what I love to do, and this is what I do best. Finally, I've gotten a reprieve from writing boring analysis docs and I got to play with code.
Basically, I had to write a JDBC connection framework to connect to mySQL from openKnowledge, our flagship product we're working on. I could have used something vanilla, but I wanted to do something with a bit more umph. It took a while, but I managed to figure out how to do proper connection pooling configured by user-overrideable property files. The examples given from the mySQL website were shit. The JDBC through JDNI code never worked properly (probably because the documentation is shit), so I ended up using something from the Apache DBCP group. It works, and all is well. 8 hours just went zoom :D
Now my day is done, and for the first time in a long time, I'm happy with the work I did today :)