Daynote ,Svenson

MM-xiii     Thursday

2000-01-13

No mist :) , no ice :) , no rain :}, no sun :( . And at 2°C it is quiet nice weather, with sun it would have been really nice.

An error has crept in in the program for invoice printing. Invoicing is done in a three stage process. The first stage is creating the invoice data and filling that in some files. The second stage is creating an invoice-printfile. This file (IZ) contains all the data that is needed for printing the invoice. For example in the invoice file there is only an invoice address number while the invoice print file contains all the relevant address data. The third stage is the actual print program which sorts and formats the IZ data and commits it to paper. Stage two and three are separated because each country has specific (legal) requirements for the invoices so the actual printing program is different in each country (we only provide a model program that must be locally adapted.
As I explained some weeks ago We had a problem with passing the address from stage one to two. This resulted in the printing of invoices that did not belong to the requested address . In the quick fix I applied then I made an error. Now invoices are only printed if a specific address is passed, if no address is entered the intention is to print all the outstanding invoices (of a certain type). An if--and--or--else hiccup. I have only one consolation and that is that, unlike usual, this fix was actually tested and approved by the account manager (Pieter) so I am not the only one who missed the problem.
A simple problem and quickly solved . Theo is going to test it tomorrow <g>

Then there was the problem with prolongation of contracts. There is no specific program to do this (I explained that somewhere as well) but the price list maintenance program can be used for this. There exist two problem reports for this. One (11787) was implemented but , apparently that is not what they actually want so now I implemented the other one (11815). Well I actually started the implementation by adding an extra window but halfway trough the process I noticed that the selection program that I was changing did not work according to the standards here. Normally a selection program doesn't write in the files but passes the selected object(s) back to the calling program via some data structure or a parameter list, this one (prm014) writes records directly to the database. The result is that the changes I started for it yesterday were all useless. So I had to throw them away <click, click, tap, tap Tap > and attack from another direction <tap, tap, tap, click, ... > .
Who says programming isn't fun?
Yep, that got finished as well. and presented for testing.

Hehe, Theo is going to be busy tomorrow. <G>

The PC and network guys have been running around upgrading a bunch of PCs from 32 or (gasp) 16 MB to 64. My guess is that we will get Windows 2000 some when this year. Just a hunch, no evidence. But for most tasks done around here a Pentium of 133 or so and 32 meg is enough (terminal emulation is the most important application, some guys are even using dumb terminals, with some Word crashing, oeps text processing and browsing thrown in). Only a few people need more and they already had more power.

And I slipped the border again unchecked. The only effect of the controlling action is that, maybe, a lot of immigrants don't try to come. Organized human smugglers will enjoy this whole situation;

I try to write a story but I am not sure it will get to something. Up to now I have been adding tag lines with a lot of variation on my daynote pages. I also dumped something different on each 'tomorrow' page. I will try to build a story out of these one-liners (be aware however, they are not spell checked).
BTW I did something similar for the last 12 days of last year but I doubt anybody noticed it.

Adios