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2000-07-26

 


Grey and raining, lightly, in the morning after yet another warm night (15°C). Again dry and gray after about 9h00 and staying that way. It is turning out a record breaking month meteorological.

No progress on the trigger problem. Well, I didn't look at it so that was to be expected.

I mentioned Yesterday that I solved the problem in Norway and that the problem would rear its head again in other places. Sure enough Jan calls somewhere halfway trough the morning that TeleSales doesn't work. I started looking up all the programs that would need to be adapted in anticipation of that. I only had to make sure the solution from yesterday actually worked. A few question later I know it worked. Of course the user profile they give me initially doesn't have authority to actually do the changes.
At about 12h00 everything is working (almost) as it should.

Some time ago we got a list from system support (bofh) with 'national programs' to be checked if they are really national or actually common (or redundant).
The programs we write are 'common' in the sense that all the operating companies use them. Sometimes an opco changes a program (they do get all the sources) for example to comply with local tax laws or to add a feature their users demand. These change programs are 'local programs, they are maintained locally. Sometimes an opco demands a changed (or a totally new) program but doesn't have the resources to do the programming locally (no programmers or no time or ...) In that case we write the program but we only send it to that specific opco. This becomes a 'national' program. We keep the maintenance of these programs until either the opco takes over (when it becomes a 'local' program, deleted from our system) or when the extra/special function is no longer needed (often because it found its way into the common core). We try to keep the number of ' national' programs as low as possible.
The list contains 'national' programs that haven't been changed for 2 or more releases. The difficulty is in making out if the programs can be removed or if the must be made 'common'. So I get my nose down on the keyboard tracking down data and program flows.

While doing that I unearth a deathly bug in some totally unrelated application. And crush it.

 

Mandrake 7.0 is running happily on Yaku. So what do I do now?

How must you site behave?
Zero learning time or die. As proclaimed by
Jacob Nielsen. Or an explanation of why your site should mimic the style of other sites, even if these are not, well ... stylish. Luckily this 'style advise' is aimed at commercial sites, personal ones like mine can deviate freely from the norm.


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