A few thoughts
March 27, 2003
Have you ever worked on a project and everything looks good, your code looks like its going to do what it’s supposed to do. But the project doesnt work, or you get an error that doesnt make sense? then it turns out the problem is something really stupid and easy? I have. I been working on a PHP project thats basically a heavly modified version of this billing system tutorial. Well what happened was alot of the code i was writing was not working when it should and I was getting all the same error messages. So my first thought was shit the server is fucked up. Talked my buddy that owns the server and he said everything is kosher. So i asked around on a the forums and it turns out i didnt have the permissions setup the right way (crap). Man all i wanted to do after that was bang my head against the desk.
Also after reading through some of my old posts, i really need to proof-read before publishing them. For some reason what i type and what i am thinking doesnt always agree. So for now on i am going to try and proof-read before i post.
In other news, I thought I was going to Toronto next week for four days on a buisness trip to redo the network at a site based there. But it got pushed up to this weekend, so i am leaving tomorrow around noon with our TNS-data guy for the weekend to run new cable, patch panels and networking gear. Its going to be an interesting experience. The bad thing is that i am not going to be able to hang out with Amanda this weekend 
Also i been working on another new project at work. I started working on learning HP’s Openview. Its monitoring software that allows us to do all sorts of server monitoring, like disk usage, processor usage, check to see if services are running on certain servers, etc. What I am going to be doing is start setting up different monitoring scripts and trying to make our lives a little easier. So far after going through a primer with the admin on what i can do, i already started comming up with some cool ideas. So hopefully i’ll be able to implement them, once i get more into it, i’ll get into more detail.
