Andy Kopciuch's Blog
Monday, February 18, 2008
Semi Random Summaries
There's been so much going on in the past few weeks. Blogging kind of fell to the wayside. I finally have some time this weekend (Today is a holiday in Alberta for "Family Day"). I had a relaxing weekend. Played poker with marlon and some friends Friday night. Saturday night I enjoyed some pizza, and a few games of Risk 2210 with Aaron and Peyton. Aaron slaughtered us both. I keep telling Peyton "Don't listen to him" ... and maybe now he's finally learned. ;)
The eyes are better now. Still not quite finished the drops. I forgot them when I went back to MJ at the beginning of Feb for my moms B-Day. We had a great supper with family. I met Tammy, my brothers girlfriend. I went out with my sister a few times, and she is still bouncing around with what to do in life. She has recently ended her possibility of going back to Nova Scotia. I called her yesterday to make sure she was O.K. seemed alright, and I'm sure she'll pass through this phase of life.
On the L&Y front I added some features to enhance the EFT renewals, which involved re-writing the Abeyance system to a workable product. Now it can be easily enhanced for other systems without much effort. Kevin spent a while working with pantheon on a new website for L&Y. I think I wrecked him with cooltext.com (check it out). And AJ is over the moon with how pantheon works.
Kevin did stress the barriers of pantheon out of the gates, and found several small bugs which are patched in the 0.9 branch, and trunk. My plans are to roll a new release from 0.9 soon (I have no firm date ... need to figure that one out). I was really happy with the use / progress on there. I have patched a few other odd things in the framework, and it's time for a new release. I have one major thing on my list before release. I need to change the way the sql_addDate* functions handle dates. CASTing them is not portable, even within PG itself due to the datestyle setting differences. So we decided to move to under the hood using to_date, and we can handle the formatting from there. I just don't want to patch quickly, as it's used "EVERYWHERE". I want some testing on it. I just need to find an afternoon and do it. meh
Bikerpak is rolling again. I have fixed some bugs, and finally added the synch features to upload the CSV reports from Jevco, and have the controlling carrier IDs mapped to the proper policy. Now it's easy as upload, preview, I even made it possible to edit in place the CSV file uploaded on the server, then process for real. I am very pleased, and it's been working like magic. I'm already onto some new need (re : waiting for) features for a while, but the buzz is back on.
Planet Foods kind of got knocked down in priority for me as of late, but I have done some sporadic things on there. I have laid out some time later today / this week for doing some very much needed features to the system. I have had some meetings, and conferences, and Jacques has been going hard on the commits. I need to get back in the swing on that project.
I'd like to thank the Giants for winning the superbowl this year. And big great big HAHA to the patriots fans who guarunteed a perfect season. Guess not huh?
I just got all of my Corporate tax stuff finished. It's waiting in the appropriate folder to take to the accountants tomorrow. Whew! Not late this year! YAY! I have also paid off the taxes in arrears for last year. Now I have a few months of breaqthing room to pay off some debt and bills, and stock up for the next run. But it is a way nicer feeling to be ahead of the game this year.
With the no smoking anywhere rules in ALberta now, I've pretty much given up on the gambling scene. Which is kinda nice. I really played too much out of boredom. Traveling out during the day, and stop in somewhere for a coffee and a smoke, and roll the dice on the slots. That got nipped in the ass, and I don't really mind. I played once this year ... in like a 6 week span.
I've really been camping out at home alot. Stocked up on the bulk crap from Superstore last week. I'm happy to be a home body for a while. The travel have worn me out in Dec / Jan. Although I am planning to head back to MJ once more at the beginning of March for Dolly Van's Birthday ... plus I'm trying to make it home more often than I used too with my brother moving out, and my sister not going to be sticking around much longer. I'm worried about mom being alone all the time, so I'll have to make some more trips that I used to the past few years.
Here's to a great upcoming, shortened week. And warm weather. ΒΆ 6:50:00 AM 0 comments
The eyes are better now. Still not quite finished the drops. I forgot them when I went back to MJ at the beginning of Feb for my moms B-Day. We had a great supper with family. I met Tammy, my brothers girlfriend. I went out with my sister a few times, and she is still bouncing around with what to do in life. She has recently ended her possibility of going back to Nova Scotia. I called her yesterday to make sure she was O.K. seemed alright, and I'm sure she'll pass through this phase of life.
On the L&Y front I added some features to enhance the EFT renewals, which involved re-writing the Abeyance system to a workable product. Now it can be easily enhanced for other systems without much effort. Kevin spent a while working with pantheon on a new website for L&Y. I think I wrecked him with cooltext.com (check it out). And AJ is over the moon with how pantheon works.
Kevin did stress the barriers of pantheon out of the gates, and found several small bugs which are patched in the 0.9 branch, and trunk. My plans are to roll a new release from 0.9 soon (I have no firm date ... need to figure that one out). I was really happy with the use / progress on there. I have patched a few other odd things in the framework, and it's time for a new release. I have one major thing on my list before release. I need to change the way the sql_addDate* functions handle dates. CASTing them is not portable, even within PG itself due to the datestyle setting differences. So we decided to move to under the hood using to_date, and we can handle the formatting from there. I just don't want to patch quickly, as it's used "EVERYWHERE". I want some testing on it. I just need to find an afternoon and do it. meh
Bikerpak is rolling again. I have fixed some bugs, and finally added the synch features to upload the CSV reports from Jevco, and have the controlling carrier IDs mapped to the proper policy. Now it's easy as upload, preview, I even made it possible to edit in place the CSV file uploaded on the server, then process for real. I am very pleased, and it's been working like magic. I'm already onto some new need (re : waiting for) features for a while, but the buzz is back on.
Planet Foods kind of got knocked down in priority for me as of late, but I have done some sporadic things on there. I have laid out some time later today / this week for doing some very much needed features to the system. I have had some meetings, and conferences, and Jacques has been going hard on the commits. I need to get back in the swing on that project.
I'd like to thank the Giants for winning the superbowl this year. And big great big HAHA to the patriots fans who guarunteed a perfect season. Guess not huh?
I just got all of my Corporate tax stuff finished. It's waiting in the appropriate folder to take to the accountants tomorrow. Whew! Not late this year! YAY! I have also paid off the taxes in arrears for last year. Now I have a few months of breaqthing room to pay off some debt and bills, and stock up for the next run. But it is a way nicer feeling to be ahead of the game this year.
With the no smoking anywhere rules in ALberta now, I've pretty much given up on the gambling scene. Which is kinda nice. I really played too much out of boredom. Traveling out during the day, and stop in somewhere for a coffee and a smoke, and roll the dice on the slots. That got nipped in the ass, and I don't really mind. I played once this year ... in like a 6 week span.
I've really been camping out at home alot. Stocked up on the bulk crap from Superstore last week. I'm happy to be a home body for a while. The travel have worn me out in Dec / Jan. Although I am planning to head back to MJ once more at the beginning of March for Dolly Van's Birthday ... plus I'm trying to make it home more often than I used too with my brother moving out, and my sister not going to be sticking around much longer. I'm worried about mom being alone all the time, so I'll have to make some more trips that I used to the past few years.
Here's to a great upcoming, shortened week. And warm weather. ΒΆ 6:50:00 AM 0 comments
