Release ADiary version 1.1. Cool new feature is the ability to re-order tabs using drag and drop. I’ve also fixed an annoying bug that left empty diary files around too!

A very productive day today… the only problem was that I ended up doing stuff I thought that I’d already done!

The stuff I posted yesterday seems to have disappeared. Well you won’t get the eloquent wording that I did yesterday again!

Yesterday was spent solving a problem with a COM+ DLL written in VB. (No, I didn’t write it!). I solved a problem with an assumption about date formats that really didn’t hold true for 90% of cases! What is it about dates and computers that programmers don’t get? Maybe it’s only VB programmers, but if you are going to use dates with a SQL database, use ISO format of yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss and nothing will get confused. Display it how you like, but please don’t manipulate it assumming it’ll be in the format dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyyy!

The other problem I may have solved is with this COM+ DLL randomly crashing for no apparent reason. Googling showed up a possible cure though. It appears that a MS security fix for an RPC vulnerability breaks the Microsoft Transaction Server…

oops!

Monday morning and there’s a major accident on the M25, so I’m nearly late for work.. and the day goes downhill from there…

I did however get a handle on a datetime problem I’m having with a COM+ object on our live server that doesn’t happen on the test server!

You can tell it’s a Sunday… we got Jon dressed just in time for lunch and a nap!

We got Jon a “real” bed today. It’s so huge in comparision to him! he looks lost in it. Of course, he doesn’t seem to have really grasped the concept of a bed yet and didn’t sleep at all during his lunchtime nap. Maybe he’ll sleep better tonight as a result though.

Reuters has a report that the US are keeping CHILDREN in the Guantanamo Bay as prisoners. I just don’t know how to express my disgust. They aren’t even allowing the kids to phone their parents! It seems that they were forced into service by warlords and I think it is shameful that they haven’t been returned to their families.

It seems that there are a lot of prisoners being held without charge at Guantanamo Bay. It’s about time the US allowed these people legal represenation and the right to a fair hearing. You can bet that if Americans were being held without charge by another country, there would be an outcry from the US…

Discovered that it’s fairly easy to lose data in ADiary if you have Windows crash. Have taken more steps to help ensure that if that does happen, there’s more chance that you’ll get your last backup back.

It really didn’t help that I had a couple of silly bugs that meant that ADiary was autosaving once per minute and wasn’t checking if the file had been modified before it did the save :(

Was a great game to watch last night! I didn’t particularly care who won; I just wanted to watch a good game of football. Well I got that in spades last night! The Real Madrid goalkeeper is either really good or really lucky! or maybe a good keeper is a lucky keeper.

Seven goals, Manchester United won the game but lost on aggregate. Clearly they had learned from the shambles of the first game and football fans had an enjoyable evening.

Today has been a day of travel. As it’s the first day back at work after the long weekend I drove up from London this morning to Stratford-upon-Avon to do the work thing all day. After work, I drove over to my Mother-in-Law’s to do a couple of jobs and then drove back to my digs ready for tomorrow! All in all about 300 miles wrapped around a nine hour working day.

Now I’m tired…