Tag: three rings
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On This Day In 2004
On this day in 2004, Dan finally handed in his dissertation on the subject of Three Rings. Since then, Three Rings has become the de facto standard for University Nightlines, and has also become the most popular rota management system for Samaritans branches and a variety of other helpline charities, too.
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Making Time
Finally at the end of a mammoth development stretch for the Three Rings project, Dan finally gets a little free time in which to play some video games.
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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Hectic (so let's look at Paul, instead of writing a proper blog post)
Between SmartData work, Three Rings work, freelance work, strange new bits of voluntary work, and the rapidly-looming wedding between Ruth & JTA (along with handling all of the crises that come with that, like the two mentioned on the wedding blog and the threat of rail strike action on the weekend of the event, which …
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Sleepless? Priceless!
Time for this iteration of a software project: 4 months
Time left after the client changed their mind about the "must have" requirements: 2 months
Amount of sleep within the last 40+ hours: 4 hours
Number of JOIN clauses in an eleventh-hour SQL statement that suddenly fixes everything: 12 (LEFTies, RIGHTies, … -
Writing A Calendar App In Rails Vs. PHP
Some time ago, I wrote a web-based calendar application in PHP, one of my favourite programming languages. This tool would produce a HTML tabular calendar for a four week period, Monday to Sunday, in which the current date (or a user-specified date) fell in the second week (so you're looking at this week, last week, …
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Suz. And Naivety.
Just been having on online chat with Suz:
(15:53:41) Dan: It [an online weather forecast on a web site I run] says we should expect a wet weekend, clearing up for an overcast week.
(15:53:54) Suz: and who puts it on the web site?
(15:53:59) Dan: The BBC.
(15:53:59) Suz: i always thought it was paul
(15:54:02) Suz: oh
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Alone, And With…
People who are in on the Secret Of The Jukebox will be delighted to hear that I've had a good long hack at it tonight (hence it being 4:30am) and I've managed to get heaps done and ready for Paul to break test, including but not limited to the new "Alone, And With..." engine, which …
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Bovini: A Week Well-Spent
It's been a busy week. I've spent a lot of my time at the office, trying to get the replication model for Bovini working - causing much stress as it failed time and time again. For those of you without a grounding in computer science theory, replication is the art of making data be identical …
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Edge of darkness
This repost was published in hindsight, on 22 March 2019.
Kit wrote:
A day of energy and focus. Paul and I hacking through stuff, fixing, tweaking, making work, prodding, pushing.
Its a slick operation. Paul and I discuss bugs and problems, mark them up on a whiteboard on the wall (installed for the purpose) and clear off … -
Eventful
Been excessively busy this last week: lots and lots of work. Pulled a 16-and-a-half hour work day on Wednesday, fixing the entire network where my co-workers were unable to. It's a lot nicer now. In other news, I won an eBay auction for a copy of the 1974 edition of Parker Games "Careers" board game, …
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Stress
Things that are causing me excess stress and reduced sleep:
WORK
I'm writing program features that have been paid for, but may never be used.
I can't keep a pcAnywhere connection to the client open for more than a few minutes.
I've been abandoned to sort out the database replication by myself.
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Train Girl Fantasy
Take a look at the thread on Train Girl Fantasies that Andy has accidentally started. Participate! Tell us all about your Train Girl Fantasies. We all know you've had them.
Last night I fixed eight or so of the bugs that Paul and Kit found in my software project the night before. They've promised not to … -
Banks
It seems that NatWest now only open during the hours at which I am at work. Yet somehow I'm expected to deposit my paycheque. This makes no sense.
Mostly, I've been watching Futurama and drinking good beer. On Saturday, Claire and I went up to a forest North of Dolgellau and ate sandwiches and failed to … -
Thursday Afternoon
Good progress at work today, easily catching up on the things I didn't get done yesterday on account of having been at the Royal Welsh Show.
AbNib is proving itself popular, but I'm still not happy with it: there are a load of really cool features I'd like to add, yet. But that's a job for …