A Day at the Keyboard

19:16.04 - Saturday 18th October 2003   (Link to This Entry)

Cor blimey Guv, I feel like I've been put through the wringer today. I've been sat in this damned chair for hours with various computer-related tomfoolery as I shall now recount:

Started another weekend with more web-work for a major major project that we haven't actually got yet, but which we're reasonably confident of getting. I don't actually think it's gonna be that big a website, but then it's early days yet. The project itself is gonna be huge, National Press and everything, so if we do get it I'm gonna want it to be flawless, otherwise I'll be frightfully embarrassed.

Next up was a little lesson for 'The List' in open fileshares and network access and other such shenanigans. I picked an IP from one of the guys and demonstrated how to scan his group block, then picked an open machine at random (which had two shares, including a C drive - tut tut) and demonstrated how to look at files and so on. Not hard to do, granted, but it illustrates how you can get back to someone's machine and look at their files just because they sent you an email.

Only Redmond makes it this easy.

And finally, I've been back on the Lotto Site Auto Update Thing again, bludgeoning my way through VB trying to get it to do what I want and, actually, it's not going too bad. I've reached the point now where the program has got to send some data off to the server and get a response back.

While I'm reasonably confident that everything's right, there's always this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that something's gonna to humongously pear-shaped and I'm going to have three billion sets of meaningless results inserted into the database before I can stop the damned thing. More local testing is happening, and everything looks spot on bloody perfect, but... well... y'know.