Monday 3 December 2007

I've never written a blog before, I've never written a diary before either but thought that maybe it would be a good idea to keep hold of all of those little bits of information that could come in handy at a later date. At the moment I am trying to add some details to a web site regarding flight codes, which ordinarily would be a simple matter, however the way the system was designed means that the airport code in question is not only a nice little display item but is also used in the underlying booking system too. So much for separation of concerns! Anyway this is proving to be quite a pain and I am having to do some hideous shuffling of data in order to change the code, it seems like a lot of development work for very little gain. People that request these changes have no idea what the change involves because all they see is a three letter code changing, that annoys me.
 
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