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MM-cviii     Monday

2000-04-17

Today starts off raining but it dries out soon. We even get some bright moments, driving the temperature up from 5°C to around 16°C. The sky remains dotted with very dark spots however and a few very localized heavy showers pass by.

We got an unproductive Monday. Problems with the Roundtable (the version control system used for TeleSales) databases keep Ronny off work for most of the day. I introduce him to some HTML coding which he tries to apply to a budding web site for his indoor-football (not the American type) club. My main advise was to surf a lot and collect ideas. This typically leads to a very cluttered interface. My next advise is not to use a layout tool to apply the ideas (I installed CuteHTML on his PC). This typically leads a a keep it simple style because all the page items have to be hand coded. He is a programmer so hand coding doesn't frighten him like it would some.
This way he learns HTML so that when he starts to use another tool, like FrontPage or DreamWeaver or ..., he still knows where to look if things don't come out as expected. I know quite some people (even real programmers) that have made reasonably good looking and even functional pages but that would be utterly lost if they lose their main tool. There is nothing better as a foundation as the pure code.
You shouldn't learn to fly on auto pilot.

I did finish the Invoice date passing problem from Friday and I tested it. Testing is a bit tricky because the problem only occurs if you submit the job one day and it only becomes active the next (or a later) day. On a PC you could fiddle with the system clock but you don't do that on a multi-user system. So I cheated for testing and now it is in the system-test environment so the regular testing should pick up any error.
While transferring it I applied the change to the previous version as well. It is a problem from Belgium and they probably want the fix ASAP.

My upload yesterday somehow broke the images. But in a strange way. When I open a page I do get for example the gradient background but when I press the reload button I lose the background. Now, locally at home, everything works and I don't see a problem (well I see lots of problems but not the missing backgrounds).