Rewrote the entire thing. It’s now much, much nicer on the backend (no longer a single php file with all the logic in it) and, as a plus, it’s easily skinnable. Woot.
Tell me what you think.
Author Archives: Alan V
Epic, epic fail
So today I checked in a changelist containing (what I thought were) relatively minor changes to 40 files.
Turns out I had switched two parameters in a function call (so what should have been call(String a, String b) instead was call(String b, String a). If I had run *any* test at all, I would have caught it. But I didn’t, assuming that the changes were simple enough (and I had had someone else look over the code with me and it looked fine to both of us). Result: everything broke, hard.
Took me about 30 minutes to get things back in a happy state (fixing up 40 separate files) and then another 3 hours or so to properly revert out everything.
It was an incredibly dumb thing of me to do (submit any change, even a seemingly minor and trivial one, without testing first).
Also, I managed to rip the green shirt I really like.
I’m so upset with myself :-\
Repost
Just passing it on, because it’s so true…
Common Courtesy
When an old man on the bus (who is standing because there are no seats for him) accidentally steps on your foot during the usual flurry of activity that happens at a bus stop and then apologizes… it is not appropriate to retaliate by stepping on his foot and, when he doesn’t notice, to step again, harder, for 5 seconds, glare at him, and sarcastically apologize. It is then even more assholish to lecture him on how, “When people are wearing their expensive clothes and shoes, you don’t step on their feet with your shitty sneakers that you probably got for like $5.” and curse loudly as you get off at the next stop.
If you are a homeless person in filthy, smelly clothes and you are going to come into a Mexican restaurant and steal food from their salsa bar (which has stuff like pickled radishes and carrots), it is not appropriate to push people at the bar aside, reach over their uncovered food so that your sleeves are all over it, and grab multiple handfuls of food with your visibly dirty bare hands… especially if you glare at everyone standing there afterwards as if they were in your way.
It is also not appropriate to force the back doors of a bus to open (by reaching through the gap between the closed doors and pressing the bar) so you can board without paying, particularly if you are again a filthy, smelly, homeless person who will then subject the people there to your stench.
I hate the world and everyone in it. It’s like today is just adding up to be one huge mess after another.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Same old
I really should do more with my weekends.
The fact that my laptop can no longer run Photoshop (it starts up but then it’s so slow it’s unusable) doesn’t help.
Maybe it’s time to buy that desktop that I wanted and delegate my laptop to true portable status.
I need to get out more and meet people. I feel like I’m having a lot of trouble with that now that I’m not interacting with large groups of peers 24/7.
Wheee.