Busby Pt. 5

by | Oct 31, 2008 | Work

Just a quick one…

Looks like I am unable to break the Live server, My files went through with no problems.

D+ Must try harder!

WTF Just Happened?

by | Oct 30, 2008 | Work

Greetings Dear Readers…

I’m bit confused right now, I have just left a development meeting for my place of work. Present were “The MD“, “The Code Ninja“, and “PhoneBoy“.  Just so you have the back story, I was at one point Head of Development for the place I work (albeit briefly before a company wide reshuffle).  PhoneBoy is a consultant who works for us desinging a PBX system, and I have spent the last few years teaching him PHP, mySQL, etc.

So, we’re in the meeting and the MD describes phase 1 of a new project, which is basically a simple no frills web form, populating a database. (easy, newbie mukyu level work), and I get asked “Which bits if any do you think you can handle, and which bits do you need PhoneBoy to do because its too hard for you”?

WTF???

The CodeNinja, The Black Belt in Coding, incapable of a simple Newbie task?

Possible time for Career change!

Busby Pt. 4

by | Oct 29, 2008 | Technology, Customers

It gets better…
After a week trying to evaluate My last “Data File” Busby have decided they are unable to evaluate the data due to their system still being broke from my last test. So to speed things up they are simply granting me access to their Live system as of Friday.

Oh the power… A new system to find the bugs in…

Mind Power

by | Oct 22, 2008 | Mind Power, Survey

I have been thinking. I know a dangerous occurrence!

We all know that we are all different physically, we all do things in different ways. But have you ever considered if we all do things differently mentally?

I’m curious, where when you think do you feel you are thinking, DO you think in pictures, words, I always assumed we thought the same, but do we?

So I am thinking of coming up with a series of questions to put to people in a slight survey of the mental processes.

CN

Busby Pt. 3

by | Oct 13, 2008 | Technology, Customers

An update on the progress of my project with “Busby” is about due.

As you are aware from my previous posts, this project is all about integrating with some old archaic parts of the Internet. For those of you interested in how old, I spotted a variable $Noah.

Well we recently hit a problem where every test we put through broke their system in such a way that they could not reproduce the error even using the test data we provided. Got to love old code.

Well their engineers worked night and day for the last week and have finally fixed the problem.  They rolled back the code to a moth ago before they made any changes.  I believe the old Internet code has become self aware, and is resistant to change.

SkyNet is coming.