On the subject of flavoring items from the pharmacist, it wasn't that long ago (OK, maybe it was 30 years, but who's counting?) I got cinnamon oil to make flavored toothpicks. They didn't have it on the grocery shelves, but they had it behind the counter of the pharmacy. That was a big grocery in Des Moines, Iowa. I think that was where I got peppermint oil too.
@Mien Yes, it should. So I now wonder what it is. It really felt exactly like the flu, with fever, muscle pains, headache, nausea, bitter taste, etc. Lifting a tea cup even took some effort.
@Mien Oh, dear. Is it serious?
By the way, you can call it football, this is Europe!
The tentative promotion for the weekend got partially put up last week instead of the fiel that was meant to go last night
Two others that were meant to go last night got pulled for some reason
The thing that was meant to go last night might be totally borked because someone else is emailing that even with that not going, they're seeing new problems I hadn't heard of
also at 09:30 last night I was asked to make some paperwork. I was at home. With no email access. Which is fine because I can't remote into the network to get the paperwork to fill out anyway. Which is fine becuase it has to be signed by people who were also at home. No idea what they were thinking there
the two guys in charge of releases are mia. My boss is mia. The BA in charge of the project is mia
his boss is mia
I have no idea where one of the paperworks went, I handed it off days ago. I have no idea why the other needs paperwork at all given it was to correct a mistake operations made when doing a promotion last week, shouldn't it be the same paperwork?
They're talking about reverting to the old version until this 'stabalizes'
which is a hoot because they keep finding new edge cases I was never told about and that they never thought to test before it was in production and blaming it on me >.>
"When I enter the maximum number of characters in French it wraps to a new line." "Why did you never try that before?! We had a whole month of testing!"
"We had a whole week where you were trapped in a room unable to get work done with nothing to do BUT test!"
@Yamikuronue Sounds like you're in for a fun few days :-(
I just need to figure out something supposedly simple—what is causing "Authenticate/Decrypt packet error: packet HMAC authentication failed" on one of our VPNs.
I used to occasionally let our cat sleep on my bed. It meant I didn't sleep well, mainly because my bed was small and he took up space, so I had to be super careful all night, and that doesn't help when you're not a great sleeper. But he was just so sweet.
I did that once every so many months.
@SAJ14SAJ But that will stop eventually, right?
It is just like babies: if you always let them sleep with you when they start crying, they know that crying => reward.
Okay. I have had food and chocolate, and I have my soothing music...
time to see if I can't resolve some of the new bugs that were found during this morning's turmoil before I get interrupted by new information related to last night's fuckup
@SAJ14SAJ Concerning the pictures, I actually started with small pictures and I agree it looks better that way, but I became concerned that not everyone would be able to read the readout on the scale, so I switched to medium saize.
@Cerberus Oh, it started many many months ago when I asserted I was a cat. I accepted your own statement you were a three headed dog, which is a different thing.
He has been generally programming very quickly, but producing poor quality code. He just doesn't know better, he just finished his bachelor's. He writes code for the best possible case, and if it runs once on his machine, he considers it completed, production-quality code.
So this time, I saw that he had put a [HandleError(EmptyObjectPassedException)] attribute on one of my classes
This means that he thought ahead, noticed that an exception can be thrown, and handled it. And because this exception doesn't exist in the .NET framework, it means that he wrote his own specialized exception class.
So I talked to him about it, to tell him "great job"
but the name sounded a bit funny, so I asked him why he didn't use System.NullArgumentException, which is a built-in exception type.
I expected to hear either that he didn't know that the system class exists, or that his exception is thrown in slightly different circumstances. In both cases, we could have made a small change, but this didn't matter; it mattered that he had done the right thing.
And then his answer was "But the built-in class doesn't send mail".
I opened the custom exception class he had written
and inside the class, there was a method which opens the database to read the email addresses of everybody with the "admin" role, opens the configuration file to read a few parameters, constructs an email message containing the stack trace of the exception, and opens an smtp connection to send the mail to all admins
It was like working in a bakery, seeing that the new hire has baked a cake when you thought that he isn't beyond muffins yet, and he proudly proclaiming that he also put dishwasher powder in the layer so we don't have to wash the plate afterwards
