Earlier last week the tool I'm working on crossed over from code to black magic. That is the users of said tool wanted to do something with it that I hadn't programmed it to do. All of the buttons where there for what they wanted to do, I just thought it wouldn't work (wouldn't work in that particular combination). It worked - I'm still not entirely certain how or why, but it does. Hooray, I got a free afternoon.
Today it got worse. After throwing out the weeks of work (see previous posting) I'm back working on my graphical query builder. I have it working building queries one level deep but hadn't yet worked out how to have it build them many levels deep. I had all of the buttons in place and just decided to try and see what happened when I built one many levels deep... it worked. I'm happy because i can stop hitting my head against the table trying to figure out how to do this thing but I'm a little hesitant to release it given that I don't know how it works.
Ahh the trials of a geek's job.
Oh yes, I also hit the karma cap on slashdot yesterday - time to move to k5.
Today it got worse. After throwing out the weeks of work (see previous posting) I'm back working on my graphical query builder. I have it working building queries one level deep but hadn't yet worked out how to have it build them many levels deep. I had all of the buttons in place and just decided to try and see what happened when I built one many levels deep... it worked. I'm happy because i can stop hitting my head against the table trying to figure out how to do this thing but I'm a little hesitant to release it given that I don't know how it works.
Ahh the trials of a geek's job.
Oh yes, I also hit the karma cap on slashdot yesterday - time to move to k5.
