Daynote ,Svenson

MM-lxxxx     Thursday

2000-03-30

The temperature is up a notch, to 6C. The drizzle is up a notch as well. Only the grayness is unchanged.

Koen, who made the Consumable Control module (some years ago) had said that the comment adding was not done in CCM but had to be done in OLI. I searched OLI extensively yesterday and it was not in there so today I started mining in the CCM code. The problem here is that the programs are not built to the normal standard but are constructed to a rather different set of rules. The fact that Koen doesn't like documenting his code obviously doesn't help. I did, finally find the location where the comment got manipulated (in a piece of code added last year by someone else). Solving it was a piece of cake, about ten minutes work.
All said and done I did lose two days on this.

While guiding Theo trough the documentation structure that I set up I noticed he has FrontPage installed on his box. Jeekes.
We decided to keep the final documents in MS Word format (company standard and such) but to use HTML pages to structure them for easier retreival. By keeping the documents in Word he can work on them as usual and he can mail them out as usual. For me that is a bit inconvenient because I hate MS Word and MS Word hates me, I never succeed in getting a document in a consistent layout. Whenever I place figures in a document Word shifts them around or even drops them after a few days.

I did set up the documentation in HTML because I needed it for myself and what documentation there was is way outdated and on paper only. I will keep doing the HTML stuff and link in the documents Theo produces. Most of the structure remains private anyway.

I noticed that I implemented the best possible anti-spam measure on my daynotes-mirror. My e-mail address at the bottom (webmaster) is wrong. And the BIO pages are deviating from the real Daynotes . . Maybe if I fix the mail address I wil receive the complaints, so I have a good reason not to fix that <G> .

Jonathan Hassell got his place on my mirror.

And Tom decided to get a year older. Everyone got invited and I will be there (virtually so I will wear my virtual parka).