Lotto 'Daily Play' starts tonight!

19:00.50 - Monday 22nd September 2003   (Link to This Entry)

And already the counter on my UK Lotto Results site is showing increased activity. Normally I would max out at around 70-100 visitors per day, but yesterday saw 174 and today (so far) there have been 188 - and with 90 minutes to go before the draw.

I'm, not nervous at all. Honest.
I've tested everything I can test and I'm confident it'll work.
Absolutely. It'll be fine.

Gibber!

Le Pant! Le Phew!

22:54.14 - Monday 22nd September 2003   (Link to This Entry)

Worra lorra excitement! The Daily Play results didn't appear for quite some time, and when they did, I found another bug in the website code that only showed up on a day when only the Daily Play was... played. Had it been Wednesday or Saturday I would have been none the wiser, and would probably have been caught out later, with the added worry of it working once but not twice.

Turned out that the problem was date-related. Swapping from a Saturday draw like Lotto or Thunderball to tonight's draw caused the problem simply because there was no Saturday data yet for this draw type. Confused? Oh yes. Took me quite a while to nail it down as well.

Same again tomorrow night, then?