Entries this day: Work maggie

Work

5 pm Thursday 23 August 2000

Work was okay today. Actually it was pretty fine compared to yesterday and the day before. I finished the latest requested changes to my latest project; I almost feel like I'm back on schedule with it again.

We had an interesting data collection error yesterday. A person had filled out a survey and then went back to change the answers (which is perfectly legal) and then was shocked when they found 1/2 their answers missing when they went in again.

What happened? Well, on this survey, we have multiple [Save and Go To #] buttons which will save the user's input and return them to the screen at the next question. While the survey had been previously filled out, the person clicked Save and Go To *before* the screen had loaded all the way. Therefore the bottom 1/2 of the responses hadn't been drawn to the screen, and therefore showed as blank when saved for the second time.

I added a fix today. I set a variable called pageLoaded to NOPE when the page begins to be loaded. When the page is loaded, I set the value of pageLoaded to YEP. Then when Save and Go To is pressed, the button calls a function that checks the value of pageLoaded. If it's NOPE, a warning is given "please wait.." and if it's YEP, then the page is saved.

Yay!

permalink

maggie

11:04pm Thursday 23 August 2000

Tonight after work Maggie and Roddrick both went to dinner with Wende and I at House of Pies! Rodd is Wende's sister's husband, who is in town for some work training classes. Maggie is Maggie whose husband is out of town for some work stuff.

Dinner was lovely and entertaining.. We started with talk of Maggie's work and then a tiny bit about stocks, and then a lot of talk about scary movies. The scariest for Wende was It television version from back in her college days. For Rodd it was the ucky scene in Misery, for Maggie Amittyville(sp) Horror. For me it was The Serpent and The Rainbow. But I'm sure I've seen scarier and just not remembering it.

Then back to our house; Rodd split immediately to sleep at his hotel and Maggie came up to talk talk some more. Talk ranged from computers to stocks to work to movies.

permalink