I’m back in the office tomorrow after working from home for more than two weeks. I’t going to be strange. I don’t imagine I’ll get much work done tomorrow. There will be too much catching up to do. I’m sure there will be a queue of people at my desk 🙁
It’s also going to be strange (and expensive) travelling on the train again. And it’ll mean I won’t be back home ’til nearly 7pm. Jan is not going to be happy. 🙁

Ah there is a hope that Microsoft Internet explorer may save the day! I’ve been told that If you type something that looks like a hostname name, e.g. www.classic_detail.co.uk, into the IE address bar which subsequently doesn’t resolve to a valid host, it will automatically feed the address into the MSN search engine and hopefully should come up with the valid URL classic_detail.co.uk in the results.

Now the only thing is to get the valid domain name into the search engine in the first place.

Hmmm, how to do that? 🙂

I’ve just had a phone call from one of the clients about a problem they’ve got! They’ve just launched a new website, classic detail, to go with a new catalogue, but unfortunately, the printers have printed the wrong url in the catalogue! They’ve printed the url as www.classic_detail.co.uk!

OK, says they, we’ll quickly go an buy the wrong domain and point it at the correct one. Unfortunately classic_detail.co.uk is an illegal domain name. It’s the underscore you see. Not valid. (I only remembered this recently when a similar incident happened).

What to do? Well I’m not to sure what they can do about it other than print and send out correction leaflets the next time they do a mail out. Hopefully not too much damage will have been done!

Closer proofreading required next time methinks!

I’m still working through the problems with this merged code I’ve been sweating over for the last two weeks!

I’m getting punch drunk now; every time I fix one problem, I move on a step only to find another.
It seems to have been going on for ever. Some days I don’t get to leave the house. *sob*

I finaly made some progress with this merge I’ve been doing. I’ve actually got everything to compile and the code up an running. Some of the stuff even works! 🙂
But some of it doesn’t 🙁 Null pointers galore!

Still it’s only three days late already!

Ho humm, I guess I’ll be putting in some overtime this weekend.

I’m still working from home on on this mega merge I have to do.

It got really hard yesterday trying to get the stuff to compile. As an indication of the size of the task, I pulled some stats out of CVS:
Since the two code streams were one some time in May (?), on the first branch there have been more than 10,000 lines of changes in 286 files, and on the other branch there have been more than 42,000 lines of changes in 1209 files.

And I’m trying to bring the two together!

I’m still sat here working from home. Yesterday was much better; a lot less interruptions. It was a good job too. I spent most of the afternoon merging just one file!
Better progress today. But of course I don’t know if any of it is working yet 🙁

It’s cold in the cellar today. I’m beginning to miss the overheated office! 🙂

I’ve been working from home today. The idea is that I can get on with a big piece of work without being disturbed for the next 5 or so days. Unfortunately, I first had to do another piece of work which took all morning. Then I got constant emails throughout the middle of the day. It didn’t get ‘quiet’ till around 3pm. Still I’ve made a good start.