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Nearly as productive work

9:54pm JST Friday 20 November 2009 (day 14485)

After I got home yesterday, I finished the task I was going to do this morning, so I was able to get started quickly on today's stuff: a list of fixes before the site goes live soon. Eeep!

Alfonzo was in much better spirits, though there's still a lot of work to be done, we can see the proverbial finish line. A few items were working correctly but the DB data was bad (in which cases I tweaked the code a bit to explain why the program didn't seem to do anything, "um yeah you can't view that record because it doesn't exist."

Another fix was super easy: we were checking the value of a variable, but somehow its initiation code had been wiped. So I rewrote the initiation code: (*)

      $action = $_REQUEST['action'];

and bang two whole sections of code suddenly began to work!

(*) That's the only line that was missing. All the validation code was still in place, which is why the sections didn't work. Basically $action was an invalid value (NULL) so the program quickly and silently did nothing.

The super difficult bits that I haven't finished yet involve CSS. Ack; I hate CSS, which I guess isn't a very good way to learn it. Have to make some divs be sortable, "oh, and make them <li>s so the number shows up, and move the delete button from the bottom to the top."

Gah.

late home alone

10:12pm JST Friday 20 November 2009 (day 14485)

Headed home now, and am pretty tired. I'll have the house to myself tonight and tomorrow night, but I won't be having any parties. Headed out early to yoga tomorrow with Paola at yogasan.net, relatively close to Shibuya, and then going to work all day, starting with Alfonzo and ending with Alfonzo unless our Cow-Go student replies that he'd like to have his initial lesson tomorrow.

On the train, I'm sitting next to a man who I've seen several times. He always carries a skateboard, and always wears big headphones, I assume featuring some awesome tunes for his ears.

I don't know his name, but I do know his business now: watches. Or, possibly more likely, graphics design. He's been tweaking images of watches like for product images in a shopping cart the entire ride since 9:37 (pm) (10:17 now)