going into overtime

i can't say work has been hectic, but i'd been working a slight later than usual this week. today especially, i left my office at close to 9pm. i'm helping out in this project my colleague is working on, so i'm chipping in my parts where the fringe functionalities and she's focussing on her core tasks at hand. the tricky part of this collaboration is in our synchronisation of what we're working on. firstly, it's a bit rushed to come up with a versioning system (we're going to work on this for this week only), and moreover we are both not too familiar with any of these systems.

source control comes in a few flavours (CVS, SVN, SCCS and probably a host of variety more out there) that allows members of the programming group to checkout files to work on and checkin the files again once they are done. the convenience of these systems are in integrating changes by different people on the same files, and tracking such changes so that files can be rolled back to use older versions. the flipside is that people have to actually checkin/checkout files, so it's not exactly convenient to work on the same file at the same time... or something like that. and to think they were intending on applying such a system to the existing core application of our company.

so basically, we're on our own. and i reckon she's probably only just left the office not too long ago. she stayed till 11pm yesterday. tsk... makes me feel bad about not helping her all the way.

*just... all this work...*