Today's rant...
Jun. 5th, 2013 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenay*headdesk*
Things I have learned today:
1) Our web app is ridiculously complicated to add a report to, it's incredibly fragile and the error logs it generates are so far beyond useless it's not even funny.
2) My desk rattles worryingly when I beat my head on it.
3) Chocolate granola is yum.
I literally ended up beating my head on my desk late morning due to the total confusion over this damn web app. And the web team are actually the least helpful people to ask because they just tell us to look in the logs. That would be the logs filled with Java exceptions and 'report not found' errors. When we've definitely uploaded and re-uploaded the report multiple times and none of us are coding the Java section so those logs don't tell us anything we can actually do anything about. Theoretically we just update some tables with values (from a script the web team sent us) and everything in the app feeds off those, except for where it doesn't and the web team think we're all idiots BECAUSE WE DON'T USUALLY DO THIS PART OF THE DAMN PROJECT. Usually the *web team* do this but now that we're on full tilt to get the web app finished (don't get me started on how the web team were supposed to have done all this four weeks ago and they don't seem worried about missing deadlines) it's all hands on deck and none of us know what we're doing.
*headdesk*
On the up side, our staff association fed us a healthy breakfast (they're no longer calling it an appreciation breakfast, probably because none of us feel appreciated if there's no bacon) and there was chocolate granola and blueberries which are tres nom :-D
Last night I finally tackled the rewrites on the first two pages of my AO3 auction fic. These were the edits that were intimidating me the most. To the level where I looked at them all evening on Monday and ended up just running away and pretending I hadn't seen the manuscript. Er.
In other words, knowing those rewrites were needed was keeping me from tackling *any* of the edits on the other 36 pages. Ack. So I made myself sit down and do the rewrites. It took me over an hour and I'm still not 100% happy, but the new version of those pages is much better.
And longer. Oops.
But now I'm feeling more confident about working on the rest of the fic and that was my goal.
The really heavily cracked out fic has a working title now: Match Made in Heaven. Which doesn't do justice to the crack levels but at least it's not "my cracky weird wingfic with match-making angels" anymore :-D
It's still too much fun to write. As is the Edwardian Steampunk Gentlemen Vigilante Detectives AU (need working title so badly) I'm writing for Marvel Big Bang. These are the things keeping me sane this week. Weird cracky fic writing.
Things I have learned today:
1) Our web app is ridiculously complicated to add a report to, it's incredibly fragile and the error logs it generates are so far beyond useless it's not even funny.
2) My desk rattles worryingly when I beat my head on it.
3) Chocolate granola is yum.
I literally ended up beating my head on my desk late morning due to the total confusion over this damn web app. And the web team are actually the least helpful people to ask because they just tell us to look in the logs. That would be the logs filled with Java exceptions and 'report not found' errors. When we've definitely uploaded and re-uploaded the report multiple times and none of us are coding the Java section so those logs don't tell us anything we can actually do anything about. Theoretically we just update some tables with values (from a script the web team sent us) and everything in the app feeds off those, except for where it doesn't and the web team think we're all idiots BECAUSE WE DON'T USUALLY DO THIS PART OF THE DAMN PROJECT. Usually the *web team* do this but now that we're on full tilt to get the web app finished (don't get me started on how the web team were supposed to have done all this four weeks ago and they don't seem worried about missing deadlines) it's all hands on deck and none of us know what we're doing.
*headdesk*
On the up side, our staff association fed us a healthy breakfast (they're no longer calling it an appreciation breakfast, probably because none of us feel appreciated if there's no bacon) and there was chocolate granola and blueberries which are tres nom :-D
Last night I finally tackled the rewrites on the first two pages of my AO3 auction fic. These were the edits that were intimidating me the most. To the level where I looked at them all evening on Monday and ended up just running away and pretending I hadn't seen the manuscript. Er.
In other words, knowing those rewrites were needed was keeping me from tackling *any* of the edits on the other 36 pages. Ack. So I made myself sit down and do the rewrites. It took me over an hour and I'm still not 100% happy, but the new version of those pages is much better.
And longer. Oops.
But now I'm feeling more confident about working on the rest of the fic and that was my goal.
The really heavily cracked out fic has a working title now: Match Made in Heaven. Which doesn't do justice to the crack levels but at least it's not "my cracky weird wingfic with match-making angels" anymore :-D
It's still too much fun to write. As is the Edwardian Steampunk Gentlemen Vigilante Detectives AU (need working title so badly) I'm writing for Marvel Big Bang. These are the things keeping me sane this week. Weird cracky fic writing.
