Again the same type of weather with the same temperature range. Missing out on the sun almost completely.

I demoed and explained the FTP and XML programs for Theo. And added a few corrections and tweaks afterwards. We actually ran the program on the German database. Our test environment is rather small, the XML collected at most data about 20 items so things always run smooth. The German database is a copy of the real database from a production environment (and you may guess from which country). The selection produced 3044 items resulting in an XML file of around 140000 lines. Technically you can put more than one element (tag+data+/tag) on one line but to keep things easily (human) readable I placed each element on a separate line. On test it ran about two or three seconds, now it ran several minutes. At one point I stopped the job because I thought it had hit an endless loop. In the end it turned out all normal.
So I probably have some complaints from Robby, who has to manage the receiving end, in my inbox on Monday.

And I spent the rest of the day writing documentation for it. I prefer coding over documenting but not too much. Not like Ronny, he almost changes colour when he has to write documentation. Typically, when I tell him to do some documentation he starts to explain things , verbally, to me. Then, at the end of the explanation, I say something like "right, now type all that in" and he looks as if I am making some dirty proposal <g>
He'll learn it. One day he'll learn it.
I like do write documentation if it is intended for other programmers. Actual user documentation is another beast entirely. I simply cannot switch my mind into user-mode. Maybe because that requires one to explain the obvious (but how do you explain that"F3=Exit" means that pressing function key-3 will get you out of the program and back on the menu) without sounding ridiculous.
Yeah, writing is not easy. (but then to who am I telling this?)