TrainsMag.com will be down for website maintenance on Tuesday, July 16 from 5-7 a.m. CST.
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please do not make this anything like the last maintenance ( a.k.a. upgrade ? ) . We will all be holding our breath Have yoy vetted the person(s) involved in this maintenance. It always helps to have an independent analysis of any programing change. Remember the law of unintended consequences often happens whenever messing with computers. UAL found that out. .
It’s called regression testing. After testing to meet the requirements, you test the functionality of the rest of the application to be sure nothing been broke. If you do break it, yaa, you found a bug! Send it back to the shop for coding work.
Oh Well, Tuesday is a travel day for me anyway. LION will be flying to PA to visit his parents. Some side trips to NYC are planned, and I’ll take another thousand or so pictures of the subways. It is good not to buy film or to pay for processing anymore.
[X-)]I am drawn up, waiting in anticipation for the NEW Changes! [:-,]
I feel like a masochist[sigh] waiting for the sadists[:-,] to get off the train, and show me what kind of new tortures they have devised at their latest convention.
This is getting to be an annual rite around here. Tweak the system and then spend a year working out the ‘bugs’. This is getting to be expected. Like Chiggers in Kansas. [banghead]
To quote Charlie Brown…AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Back when I was taking some programming courses in college, I wrote a very nice program in Pascal. About four pages printed out.
It would either not compile, or compile and not run. Even the instructor couldn’t figure out what was going on.
When I make changes to the fire department website, it usually takes me about three tries to work out all the bugs and make it look like what I want it to - and that’s just changing a single page.
Maybe they are just going to empty the wastebaskets?
Today being the 17th, I think you can take this down now.