Friday, January 07, 2005
What a difference a day makes.
Yesterday everything was alright until lunchtime and then the hammer dropped. The new website at Client Four started to go bananas. After four hours of panicing and running about like a headless chicken I realised to my horror that it was my entire fault.
It turned out that a code module, which I’d written before Christmas, was using the wrong flag. The upshot was that data seemed to be disappearing from the system. It was just being hidden but a little bit of extra testing before Christmas would have shown up the bug.
I feel utterly humiliated to have missed such an obvious blinder and the little credibility I had at work have basically evaporated. It’s taken me, Scooter and the Dr all day to prove out the new code I’ve written to fix it is OK. The Client’s machine is now patched but there’s a small script still to run, but we need a backup of their system to test that one. I’m going to finish my CV over the weekend but I have to hold on till February, hopefully because of bonus. I seriously thought I was going to be fired today.
LSW is in an even worse state. Little Miss woke with a temperature of 39.1c. According to the books, you should take her to the Doctors if she’s that high. It turns out that she might have been wrapped up too warm during the night but the little girl has too much of a cold for it just to be that.
This meant that LSW took the morning off work and the mother-in-law came up to baby-sit, in addition to the wing mirror that was broken yesterday, the car tax demand and the fact that the bank didn’t send her a cash card (she can’t get any of her money out), she going through the grinder as much as I am.
Thank God it’s Friday. We can (kind of) rest. Due to the panic, there’s been no work on the game for the last few days.
It turned out that a code module, which I’d written before Christmas, was using the wrong flag. The upshot was that data seemed to be disappearing from the system. It was just being hidden but a little bit of extra testing before Christmas would have shown up the bug.
I feel utterly humiliated to have missed such an obvious blinder and the little credibility I had at work have basically evaporated. It’s taken me, Scooter and the Dr all day to prove out the new code I’ve written to fix it is OK. The Client’s machine is now patched but there’s a small script still to run, but we need a backup of their system to test that one. I’m going to finish my CV over the weekend but I have to hold on till February, hopefully because of bonus. I seriously thought I was going to be fired today.
LSW is in an even worse state. Little Miss woke with a temperature of 39.1c. According to the books, you should take her to the Doctors if she’s that high. It turns out that she might have been wrapped up too warm during the night but the little girl has too much of a cold for it just to be that.
This meant that LSW took the morning off work and the mother-in-law came up to baby-sit, in addition to the wing mirror that was broken yesterday, the car tax demand and the fact that the bank didn’t send her a cash card (she can’t get any of her money out), she going through the grinder as much as I am.
Thank God it’s Friday. We can (kind of) rest. Due to the panic, there’s been no work on the game for the last few days.
