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Bingo Card Creator Goes Web 2.0
Three years ago, on July 1st 2006, I released version 1.0 of Bingo Card Creator. It was ugly, underfeatured, and bug-ridden. Now, it is ugly, underfeatured, and bug-ridden… with AJAX!
Feast your eyes at this very, very early sneak peak. You’ll want to click one of the various “sign up now” text links rather than the download [...]
Why does cron hate me so?
Once *again*, cron decided that it would stop deleting my Rails cached files after I upgraded to Hardy. I’m totally stumped as to why it happened — the logs say that the rf -rm happened at the scheduled times for the last two weeks, and I was able to successfully do it by sudoing into the [...]
Dropbox is saving my bacon
About a month and change ago a Japanese coworker asked me “Hey, Patrick, have you ever heard of Dropbox?” All I knew is that they were some vaguely storage-in-the-clooooooooooooooooooooooud startup, but not really the specifics. But since he and another coworker were interested in it I did some checking to tell them what they would [...]
Yay for A Productive Hour
I finally killed that little permissions error (protip: if you symlink a to b, and are wondering why you can’t access a/c, a/d, and a/e despite the preferences on a, c, d, and e all being right, check to make sure you’ve chmod-ed b/. properly.)
I also did my very first push out to github, which was [...]
That too ENTIRELY too long
Well, on the plus side, the last three days have probably been my most productive programming spring ever. On the minus side, a lot of it was spinning my wheels fighting against problems rather than making forward progress. I blame fatigue.
What I Have Done:
Bingo Card Creator 3.0. Whee. It can interact with the server to save user’s [...]
572 day uptime…
11:59:49 up 572 days, 20:07, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Sadly, I just had to resize the slice that has been running bingocardcreator.com for the last 572 days. This requires about a minute of downtime. Drats, my perfect record!
Hard to get motivated some days
I’m wrapping up day two out of the five-day vacation I have for Golden Week, and have not quite gotten as much accomplished on getting the new version out as I had hoped.
Task list to embarass myself into working hard tomorrow:
Bingo Card Creator 3.0
Client connects to server, validates license key
Server accepts connection from client, validates and if necessary reissuses [...]
Major Progress on BCC Web Application
I did some more work on the upcoming BCC 3.0 this weekend, which is going to coexist on the desktop and the Internet. (Feel the power of Web 2.0… several years late!)
The biggest challenge with BCC coding-wise has always been laying out the bleeping cards. Mostly, this is because Java has very primitive printing facilities. [...]
Bad Places To Have Bugs: Pricing Logic
About a week ago I noticed a deficiency in my understanding of how my shopping cart actually worked for purchases of 2+ units: specifically, e-junkie thought they were mispriced and was bouncing the transactions, resulting in a customer getting charged but not getting their key automatically. I only get about one of these orders [...]
Working on Bingo Card Creator 3.0
Well, I spent 1.5 hours today working on the newest version of Bingo Card Creator, after hoping to spend 6 or so. Drats. What’s on the agenda:
Fixing a display bug when editing the Free Space! under certain conditions. (Done already.)
Moving the default Save/Open directory to the OS-dependent default save directory (i.e. My Documents) rather than the BCC [...]
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