Chugging Along...

12:11.04 - Wednesday 7th January 2004   (Link to This Entry)

Yeah, still working away on the T-Shirts website. It's only a simple affair I guess, but I've put far too much effort into the back end - some favour this is turning out to be! At least I can say I've got plenty of work on, if nothing else. I'm concentrating more on the visual bit now, which means the customer will see more happening.

I love these new phones - they're crystal clear and don't interfere with anything else. Great stuff indeed, go get yours right now - those speedy folks at Home-Phones are a-waitin'.

(Edit: I made my first date boo-boo with the above link - I put '03 instead of '04 and wondered why it linked to nothing. D'oh!)

Argh! Aaargh! Aaaaaaaaaargh!

17:34.09 - Wednesday 7th January 2004   (Link to This Entry)

It appears there's been a horrible bug in the Lotto site that nobody told me about for ages and ages, and which could have caused me legal problems. I've fixed it, but I've really no way of knowing how many people were affected by it. Most of my big users elect to receive results by email anyway, and that shouldn't have been affected. Er... that's the theory, anyway.

Seems I failed to increment one of the loop counters when the Daily Play came in, and that, in turn, meant that none of the bonus balls from the draws were being compared for results. Granted, on the main Lotto Draw this only matters if you get five plus bonus, but on the Thunderball it's a bit of a shit, because it counts for the lesser prizes, and so more users are affected.

So anyway, it's done, and wading through my crappy old VBScript code has reinforced my believe that I really really need to rewrite the entire site in PHP, both for the speedup and to implement better structure of the whole thing. If only I had the time to do it all...