Numpty of the day award

Apologies for my absence, I've been busy.

"About time" I hear you cry. I know, I know. A project of this magnitude, on three days a week, you're thinking it's amazing I find time to breathe let alone blog.

Well a lot of blogging happens in my own time and I have snippets of my own time seven days a week, and this is one such snippet. If you must know, I'm uploading pictures from the weekend to Flickr, and it takes forever, and I'm bored.

Anyway...Numpty of the day:

Large projects don't always run smoothly, rather like the course of true love. We spent most of today locked in a dark room trying to get our heads around a problem and come up with a solution. Coffee was a definite requirement at three o'clock when spirits and creativity were at a low ebb.

Let me explain the problem, without getting too technical.

Component copy was a feature of ENGInE, or so we thought. That's one of the problems with listening to sales people. They tell one things and one foolishly believes them.

Component copy allows one to copy a bit of one site, and plonk it into another site. It's a very handy (some would say essential) piece of functionality.

It appears that the product, as delivered, is missing this funky piece of code.

Today we ran through a million (exaggerating for effect) scenarios involving cutting, pasting, copying, sharing, translating, overtime, double time, triple time, intravenous caffeine, Prozac on demand and the rest.

It was just after we had discounted several of these many wonderful suggestions that Rishi said "Why don't we just copy that and then send it out?" which is exactly what component copy does and which is exactly what we don't have and can't do (right now).

This may not be funny to you, but after too many hours, and not enough coffee or calories, we found it rather too amusing.

So, sorry Rishi. I'm not picking on you, honestly. It's just that today hurt my head, and the laugh was needed.