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Amazing dinner last night. Great time. I mean except that I stole a few minutes away from the table to preview the new site on my host's IE/Windows machine. And as one might guess, it didn't work at all. Every page 404'd, and not with my '404 document not found' page, but with a 404 page generated internally by IE. Huh? I managed not to start crying, but just barely. Anyway, I spent a few hours combing the message boards at phpbuilder this morning and I found the fix. As crushed as I was last night, now I am equally, and oppositely, charged. Problem; solution. Problem; solution. Down; up. You could get hooked on this ride.
And while the kind of project I am working on has about as much to do with real serious programming as (insert two things here that don't have anything to do with each other) I still found it interesting that David McCusker made a comment yesterday on the same topic I had just written about: programming and sleep. He said,
"I don't know if you've ever had the experience of designing code when you're trying to go to sleep; I don't recommend it very much. It's like telling yourself to turn out the lights, and some other voice answers, uh sure, right after I work out a bit more of this.";-)
Amazing dinner last night. Great time. I mean except that I stole a few minutes away from the table to preview the new site on my host's IE/Windows machine. And as one might guess, it didn't work at all. Every page 404'd, and not with my '404 document not found' page, but with a 404 page generated internally by IE. Huh? I managed not to start crying, but just barely. Anyway, I spent a few hours combing the message boards at phpbuilder this morning and I found the fix. As crushed as I was last night, now I am equally, and oppositely, charged. Problem; solution. Problem; solution. Down; up. You could get hooked on this ride.
And while the kind of project I am working on has about as much to do with real serious programming as (insert two things here that don't have anything to do with each other) I still found it interesting that David McCusker made a comment yesterday on the same topic I had just written about: programming and sleep. He said,
"I don't know if you've ever had the experience of designing code when you're trying to go to sleep; I don't recommend it very much. It's like telling yourself to turn out the lights, and some other voice answers, uh sure, right after I work out a bit more of this.";-)
Chapter 6 of the new O'Reilly peer to peer book is on line. This chapter is written by Jeremie Miller, of Jabber. All the buzzwords in this one, but if you're curious about jabber and other "conversational technologies" this is a good overview.
Chapter 6 of the new O'Reilly peer to peer book is on line. This chapter is written by Jeremie Miller, of Jabber. All the buzzwords in this one, but if you're curious about jabber and other "conversational technologies" this is a good overview.
Well, that was a long week. A few more coming up. Fun times. I'm very anxious to get this site switched over to the new system software, but that is going to take a back seat to getting that same software running in a more business like context. We'll see if this is possible or not. As I was telling Alex and Bill this week: I don't know if my plan will work or not, but at least I have some sort of definite plan now, and that seems, for me, like a good place to be. I'm still having a little bit of trouble sleeping, but again this isn't a huge problem, as I seem to get some O.K. work done late at night. Today I have a chance at finishing up the commenting system which is the last module necessary for the first release (of the fully operational death star... er, I mean web application.) Perhaps it will take a few more days though. All next week is devoted to the first outside implementation of the system, but I'd like to get this site switched over because that helps me test the whole thing for robustness. Maybe I'll get lucky and everything will go well. Blah blah blah, or in other words, I don't have much to write about these days because my head has been sort of down. I think maybe three weeks or so and then I can look up and reassess.
Well, that was a long week. A few more coming up. Fun times. I'm very anxious to get this site switched over to the new system software, but that is going to take a back seat to getting that same software running in a more business like context. We'll see if this is possible or not. As I was telling Alex and Bill this week: I don't know if my plan will work or not, but at least I have some sort of definite plan now, and that seems, for me, like a good place to be. I'm still having a little bit of trouble sleeping, but again this isn't a huge problem, as I seem to get some O.K. work done late at night. Today I have a chance at finishing up the commenting system which is the last module necessary for the first release (of the fully operational death star... er, I mean web application.) Perhaps it will take a few more days though. All next week is devoted to the first outside implementation of the system, but I'd like to get this site switched over because that helps me test the whole thing for robustness. Maybe I'll get lucky and everything will go well. Blah blah blah, or in other words, I don't have much to write about these days because my head has been sort of down. I think maybe three weeks or so and then I can look up and reassess.