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On Monday night, the Lambert House IT guy (another volunteer named Ray) and I deployed the Access database that I've been working on for a calendar year. We had another volunteer test it, it worked, and I felt a warm fuzzy feeling for about twenty-four hours.
Then the director, Ken Shulman, tried to use it alone. He had troubles, among them:
Of course, this all happened in a long text conversation starting after 10:00 PM last night. Good thing all three of us are night owls.
And I was so psyched to move on to porting the DB to MySQL & Ruby.
Then the director, Ken Shulman, tried to use it alone. He had troubles, among them:
- A shortcut in the startup item that needs to be pointed at the new DB. We didn't even know it existed. I couldn't fix it because a) I don't know where to find the startup items on a Windows XP machine, and b) Ray's locked that damn box down so tightly only he has permissions to fix it.
- Ken had naturally forgotten about some of the features he'd told me to implement over the last year, and some of them freaked him out. Of course he wants changes to them now.
- Ken seems to have found a bug in how selection state gets updated. Any bets on whether he can repro it for me this coming Monday? Le sigh.
Of course, this all happened in a long text conversation starting after 10:00 PM last night. Good thing all three of us are night owls.
And I was so psyched to move on to porting the DB to MySQL & Ruby.
