Archive for “Rants”

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MYSQL UPDATE

Posted Jun 26th, 2009 by Rich

Whoever made the decision that MYSQL UPDATE’s can only be done one row at a time needs shooting. With INSERT you can insert multiple rows, why not the same for UPDATE?
As you may guess I’m trying to optimise some updates, currently 128 separate ones, into something a lot smaller. I think I can do it [...]

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Ticketmaster charge to send an email!

Posted Jun 6th, 2009 by Rich

Yes you heard me – they charge to send an email. They also make it incredibly annoying when trying to check for tickets. You fill in one form, then you have to fill in another (and thus breaking site functionality) with a captcha (don’t they know they are worthless these days?).

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When nothing goes right…

Posted Jan 22nd, 2009 by Rich

Yep it’s been one of those days again.
A user found a bug in eShop, which usually isn’t a problem to fix but this time it uncovered another issue that had to be fixed. That then took 4 hours, for what should have been a quick 30 minute job.

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Dentist hell

Posted Nov 6th, 2008 by Rich

I am growing to hate dentists.

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Yet more UK2 spam

Posted Oct 1st, 2008 by Rich

Some years ago someone I know left UK2, in fact it was around the same time that I left. Well with what comes as little to no surprise they have just received yet another email from them. Apparently sent from newsletter@uk2.net with a reply to of comeback_newsletter@uk2.net and a subject of Claim your voucher today!
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Blame the developer

Posted Jul 3rd, 2008 by Rich

Do not worry. Just blame the developer because you obviously didn’t make a mistake. Ignore all the evidence, the database backups, the time stamped changes, just blame the developer.

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