I still haven’t watched any telly. I have watched a few films when I got the chance during a “sane break” and maybe an episode or two of Top Gear on BBC iPlayer while I’m at work but, all in all, I haven’t had time to watch any TV for over 4 months.

Why?

Bloody ComLuv thats why!

I paid good money for a professional programmer and designer make the site and backend API for me and I got more than what I asked for, it was worth every penny, the code was good, the design was good and it worked! Typically for me though, as soon as I got everything.. I wanted it different.

Now, rather than go through the whole process of detailing what I wanted and to-ing and fro-ing with email to the developers (and all that money stuff), I sat down and rewrote it all. API, Backend, Theme and the rest. OMG, I didn’t realize it would be so time consuming! Almost every spare hour has been spent in front of my (brand new!) PC coding. I don’t pretend that my code is as hardcore as Ron’s or my database queries are as clever but, IT’S ALL MINE! I can honestly say, every bit of code and themeness was made with my own fair hands (and own fair eyes on other peoples own fair code/templates)

I could have had it done in a few days if I’d kept it simple, but, once one thing was done – I wanted another thing to go with it. This continued on and on until at last, today, I think I’m just about ready to put the newness on to ComLuv. So that’s the plan for the end of the week, possibly Saturday morning when the intertubes are empty.

Maybe then I can start on some ‘paid’ work…… LoL , the paid work. hah!

What can you do if you stop watching TV for a little while? a frackin lot, that’s what.

I’ve been pretty much an offline boy for the past week, it’s VAT return time which means going through everything we have bought and sold and putting it down on paper for no one to read. Luckily, I have a pretty decent system of recording total sales, overheads, wages and wotnot (yup, wotnot seems to take a lot of money!) so it hasn’t been too bad.

I was a little bit anxious to be leaving the half finished url registration script I was making for ComLuv but, the missus needed help figuring out how to use the accounting software and being the good boy that I am, spent ages going through all the buttons and menus.

We ended up transferring it all to paper so she could understand it. hah!

I think I’ll have to make a simpler spreadsheet that mirrors the format of her paper system and see if that can bring her into the 19th century (we don’t want to bring her too far forward) lol

Good news is, we’re just about done and she’s off for a few days to London so I get double monitor fun with my pc and some php here and there. I should have something up and working by Wednesday if I manage to find my mojo in time.

(I’m still waiting to hear from a theme designer I paid over a week ago too but I’m trying not to think about that)

happy blogging everyone!

What this cliché expression doesn’t add is “if you haven’t got a lifejacket, you learn to make one fast or drown”

Oh the fun of metaphoric rainy days. This week just about everything to do with databases, servers, operating systems and hard disks went a bit squirly. Luckily, it all being digital stuff, I wasn’t prone to panic

This is what I learned by fighting digital fires all frickin week.

• 1GB of RAM isn’t really enough for a million hits plus website if there are tens of thousands of complex mysql statements happening every day.
• Ubuntu can crash too.
• Linux may be more powerful but that just means the crashes are even more spectacular.
• UKFast have really awesome tech support who can answer your call in two rings and be all geeky with your server and do fantastic things while they talk to you on the phone like you called to chat about the weather.
• Crisis makes you code better.
• An external hard drive isn’t a ‘safe’ place to store important data if you let other people use it to “just copy some mp3′s”
• Having another partition for your my documents folder is a really really good idea.
• Life without tweetdeck on my work pc is a bit pants
• Tweetdeck on Ubuntu is also a bit pants when you can’t unlock your default keyring
• It feels like a genius stroke to send a copy of my menu.lst from /boot/grub/ to my gmail address
• Blogging about it makes it better.
• Coding stuff because you need it, makes it worth more when it works.
• If I didn’t have my missus to ground me, I would have stabbed at least 3 people this week. seriously, with a spoon! (because it hurts more)
• It’s bloody hot in summer when you can’t go out.

What have you learned this week?

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