Thursday, 8 September 2011

Diary 132: Frustrating Error Day

Yesterday I slept at around 4:00 am. Today, I woke up at around 11:15 am. I brushed my teeth, and then went online. I had my usual breakfast then. We had to work towards the issues today, and hence I started working straight away. I allotted some of the work to Mukund and Rohit. Close to the lunch time, we were done with the issues, and also with the effort estimation. We were quite relaxed after this, and hence, I started studying. I continued with the online material. Then, I had my lunch at around 2:30 pm. After that, I continued studying. Also, I got a project deliverable document from Vaibhav. It seems that my bank account is going to be empty soon. Anyways, life was peaceful until Gotham called me up suddenly and asked about our status. I gave him an update about the issues, and that was fine. I informed Ankit about the same. Later, in the evening, I was watching TV and solving the Number theory problems, when Sanjeev called me up and mentioned that there is some issue with an XML file. The issue was critical and required immediate attention. So, I informed Ankit and we both started working on it. This went on till 8:45pm. I left the issue, and had my pre workout dinner. After that, I informed Ankit that I will be away for around 30 minutes, and left for Gym. Today was cardio day, and I burned some 350 calories. While coming back, I realized that there were several missed calls from Sanjeev and Ankit. I called up Ankit, and got the update that the issue is still not resolved. Then, I came back home and worked with Ankit on the same. The issue was solved within few minutes, and we were happy again. We informed Sanjeev and asked for a screen share meeting. Before all this, I had a bath, and also my post work out dinner. The problem started now. We altered the code at the client side, and expected that it would run properly, but there was an odd error. Even the debugger couldn't do anything. Logs showed that there is some issue with the filepath. So, we all banged our head for the next 4-5 hours on the same. Ultimately the error was a simple NEWLINE character, because of which the file was not parsed properly by DT. We all were frustrated. Even Gil had to chip in for this. But, ultimately we figured out the main issue. We stopped working and logged off. I wrote this post in half sleep, and next, I plan to sleep by 4:00 am.

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