What's it all about, Alfie?

This morning I decided that it'd be nice to have a complete list of all the merchants that didn't successfully complete their processing. Since we are now processing everything - a recent change to the code to make sure that we know exactly every single merchant is getting completely processed, we can now look at each merchant and make sure that they got through the critical processing phases. If it didn't "pick up" the right data, then we can assume that it didn't get to that point. The point of this is that we can then be sure that every merchant completed processing.

I log this, and write them to CouchDB, so we can keep a complete record of all the issues, and then updated the summary script to list the number of incompletely processed merchants so we can watch them over time.

Nice. This is starting to really get close to verification that all was done as it was supposed to have been done.

It didn't take long - just a few days, and now Google Chrome dev 23.0.1255.0 is out with a nice array of fixes for crashing bugs - including a video problem on retina MacBook Pros. There are a few things about the security of apps in the browser, which I don't use, but I'm sure there are quite a few Angry Birds fans out there.

Today has been a big day of a lot of little things. I've got five post-it notes on my desk - each filled with little things that need to be updated in the code. There are new rules for how to handle new merchants, more rules about aggregations, different rules about when to ignore merchants… all needed to be in the code as soon as possible, and because no one thing was that horrible to do, it was possible to get all the changes in today.

Yet, while trying to get things done, taking more requests is a little frustrating. No… it's quite frustrating. But I was able to get through it all without getting really upset, which is a nice win for me.

In all, it has been a really nice day - there are a few more things I need to do, but it was a good day.

This past weekend when everyone was busy - but me, I decided to give the TV series Breaking Bad a try. The first half of the first season was very interesting - even funny in many parts. I was able to identify (slightly) with the main character, Walt, and his need to provide for his family, and wondering what was going to happen to them after he was gone. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't turn to making drugs, but hey… that's what makes the show funny.

I'm now into the second season on Netflix, and I can really appreciate Netflix for allowing me to play catch up on all the past seasons. But the show is starting to loose me. Far too much violence, and not enough humor, and while it's still probably far too "tame" to be anything like reality, it's getting less entertaining and more dramatic.

I hope they pull it back from the edge a bit. One of my friends loves the end of the second season, so I'm going to see that through, but I'm not sure how much further I'll go. We'll have to see.

This morning I noticed that Google Chrome dev 23.0.1251.2 was out with a few nice fixes for crashing bugs. I haven't noticed them, but I'm not hammering on it with Javascript like a lot of the other folks are. Still, it's nice to see the decent release notes, and the improvement in Chrome continue.