Raining in the morning (at 8C). Until noon when the rain is interrupted by 10 minutes of sunshine followed by 10 hours of cloud-shine.

Ronny is back, limping from his car to the office. So we update our history, me nicely busy at work and he bottled up at home, unable to go out with his knee fixed up, and boring himself to death. Well, sort of.
And then I do some converting and tweaking of the pictures he took with the camera. Not much tweaking really, just copying to the PC and then cutting and trimming the individual football players to size for his web pages. He did propose the site to the rest of the team and they were more or less enthusiastic.

I pick up the design of the validations for which I discus some points with Ronny.
Not much noteworthy happening at work.

At home I scan in some documents for my brother and convert them to text. And shuffle them around among the copies I rescued from the damaged JAZ disk.

Again the typical overcast morning with some showers and an average temperature (9C). With a bit of sun in the afternoon.

I check in some programs for the Validation into the development environment. We are still discussing some of the finer points but the required changes on the AS/400 side are settled. So I can safely start the actual coding.

Again the typical overcast morning with some showers and an average temperature (6C). With a bit of sun in the afternoon.

The specifications for the validation program are as good as finished. Not completely written out yet but we know what and how we are going to do it.
I created the final (ahum) version of the new database files needed. On the AS/400 they can now be used. Before they are available for Ronny, they have to be added to the schema and the development environment on the Progress side. That will be done early next week.
The problem for Ronny will be that while working on the programs the test environment will be broken. That means nothing can be send out to the opcos if they have an urgent problem. And development for TOS fill be shut down till all ends are tied up again.
For me it is important that I make sure the AS/400 programs work regardless how they are called. TOS will obviously call the Validation in the old format so that must remain available while TeleSales will call them in the new format. Tricky.

 

At home I have some hard disks to synchronise. I used to make backups of one computer to another (using floppies or Zip disks) so that any one computer failing wouldn't cost me my data. I am now working on getting the whole lot connected, extending the LAN from two boxes to include everything. The result should make backing up simple and clear. The old 'backup' routine did cause a lot of clutter.

Again the typical overcast morning with some showers and an average temperature (7C). With a bit of sun in the afternoon. Real easy that weather, simple cut and paste works.

I have been digging in the IBM manuals almost the whole day looking for a specific function without finding it. I am adapting the validation program and I need to know, at runtime, by which program it is called. That is easy to do manually, just check the program stack via the system-request function. I need it programmatically but there doesn't seem to be a system function for it.
Later I found out someone has made a Machine Interface program (as close to assembler as you get on the AS/400) for just that purpose. So I can use that and virtually write off the day as lost.

Theo found a bit of spare time to get updated about the way our Redesign is going. I guess he liked what he heard because later we hear him confirm some questions about it to Jan. We probably need to show a working version somewhere next week.

Again the typical overcast morning with some showers and an average temperature (7C). With a bit of sun in the afternoon. Not just cut and paste reporting of it, the weather itself seems cut and paste (I recognised some of the clouds). Easy. Boring too.

Second course day about Webspeed. This time we are seeing code. In all colours and shades. The course assumes we know Progress but of course I don't. I have looked at progress coding from time to time but that was over-the-shoulder on Ronny's screen while debugging or problem tracking. I have enough programming experience to distil the logic out of a source in about any programming language. For the exercises we need to actually write fresh code and that is something completely different and beyond me at the moment.
I struggle and (barely) survive trough it all.

And I tweak the Validation documentation some afterwards.

 

I haven't heard back from Dave Wooten (nor from JHR so I assume the shortening of the redirection time (and the added tittle on that page) actually solved the problem. I removed the background colour anyway. I liked the way it shone trough on lines and table borders but if it annoys visitors I think it's bets to remove it.
And I don't often visit my own pages anyway.

Oh wonder, it remains dry today. Mostly overcast but dry and almost no wind. And it will probably not last.

Shopping. Got the car washed. Well I get it serviced on Monday and I would like them to at least recognised the colour. Went in with a grey car came out with a bluish green one. Neat.
Nothing computerish, only the common food and drink stuff.

And I get another couple of pies baked before lunch. Apple of course and a cherry pie. Usually, on cherry pies the juces from the cherries spill ober the pie rim into the form making it rather dificult to get the pie out of it (read I usually make broken cherry pies :( ) not this time though.

The rest (of the day) is dedicated to rest (of body and mind).

I have been plagued with problematic uploads to my site (at sjonsvenson.com) all week while uploading to my mirror (sjon.svenson.com) went well. The upload seemed to go well enough, a bit slow maybe, and I didn't get errors or warnings in the FTP log. When visiting the site later no updates had arrived.
I did delete the FTP settings for my site and recreated them (using the same settings) and now everything works as it should. Weird.

Dry yesterday but, as I said it wouldn't last. It started to rain in the evening, about 10 minutes after posting :)
Cool (4C) and dry in the morning. The morning sun gets chased away by clouds (and rain) in the afternoon.

Good running weather. Even though the rain tapered off to a slow drizzle. I do run my best time on the course (about 45 minutes for a tad over 10Km, not a world record but ...).

I spent most of the afternoon cleaning a tiled wall in the kitchen. The problem is that it is behind the cooking-range and hard to reach. That means it hasn't been cleaned in ages (yep, I give it a quick wipe over now and then but that isn't enough) and its covered with old dried up splotches.

And I tackle a pile of magazines. By reading them.