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2000-03-21

 

 

Holding on to morning frost (-2C) but less mist and more sun than yesterday. It really looks like spring.

More interruptions today but I am making progress on the translation program for the HCC. This is not a high priority program, it should be ready somewhere early next month. Theo doesn't however write specifications for us so we have to do that ourselves. Afterwards he adds to and modifies them of course.
For me that is not a problem because I like to work out my own specifications based on a rough and short description of a problem. The problem I often run into is that I start out with a rough description and build a really nice set of supportive features around the basic concept.
Of course there seldom is time to actually implement such nice features. The result sometimes compares to a rough concrete bunker with steel doors and with a marble patio and some stained glass windows.

Ronny actually started on the r7v9 programs and is progressing better than expected. Partly because the scope of TeleSales is more limited than that of OMSI-3. And partly because he started on the easiest part (purely by accident). Just wait till he starts on the II/DR stuff <MG>
He is however less than enthusiast about the work Koen is doing. Koen, in his typical style, doesn't adhere to the standards and doesn't heeds the advise given. As I mentioned before he is a good programmer but not a good team member.
When I start to work on TeleSales, probably next week, Ronny will become realty depressed :-)

Strange thing. Yesterday evening (23h00 my time) I could upload to my iTool account but whenever I wanted to view I got a message that the page couldn't be presented. I guess they were doing something at the server (Matt?). This morning all is back to normal.

Hey I got my third Spam mail this year. I wonder why some would get that much more spam than others. (ps I am not envious)

With what time I had left I changed the copy right notice on all my pages. A simple change. It was a link to the Sjon page but you can already reach it from the top of most pages.
I am not using FrontPage or some other site building and managing program, juste CuteHTML for the moment. That means I do the changes all by hand. Well I tried the global scan-replace but CuteHTML only does that correct is the change and replace are the same size and if that size is small. In the current year daynote folder I have about a hundred pages and the scan replace did its lousy job on them all. The result was that I had to manually cut and paste the correct section over the mangled one. For all the pages. Ouch.

As an aside, Normally Harper (Cyrix p166, 64MB) can easily keep up with me but loading all hundred pages got him to his knees. Maybe I should swap my main system for a faster one.


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