development corrupts

Bugs like Bug 820 make me think: "goodness, but I love jadelennox and rb"

Green counts like

5 green (0 unanswered, 5 SNH) :: 5 in import (0+5) :: 0 in crossposter (0+0) :: 0 in comms (0+0) :: 0 in styles (0+0) :: 0 in entries (0+0) :: 0 in general (0+0) :: 0 in web (0+0)

make me think: "goodness, but I love dw_support"

And life, in general, makes me think: "my, but I love pauamma"

Error: There was an error processing your request: Must provide entry text.
Cause: high security settings while in RTE
Browsers + conditions:

IE7:

• RTE
  
• no autosaved draft (because that fills in the entry text; in fact, I think that this means that it will post your autosaved draft, not any additional text you fill in)
  
• with active scripting enabled (so that noscript doesn't kick in, and you still see the form controls) -- under security tab
  
• with ActiveX disabled (so that the RTE doesn't actually do anything) -- under security tab
  

IE6:

• don't know the exact settings, but probably a similar combination

Other browsers:

• unknown. Have there been reports of this in Firefox/Opera/Safari?
  

Solutions:

• modify browser security settings; make sure LiveJournal is allowed to run active scripting, ActiveX
  
• default editor to HTML (http://www.livejournal.com/settings/?tag=editor)
  

Note: when I investigated, I got a popup saying, "Your brower's security settings could limit some features of this editor. You must enable the option 'Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins.' You may experience and notice missing features." But no users have reported this. This means there may be another setting which controls the pop-up, or there may be another setting that is preventing the JavaScript from working properly even though JavaScript itself is enabled. However, solutions/workarounds remain the same, I believe.

I believe there's a stock that handles this, sans the "make HTML your default editor, if you can't enable ActiveX" section.

Before leaving for China, I set myself a minimum goal for Support points and stuck it in Anna's reminder function -- just in case I started lagging behind and needed a target to aim at.

( original chatlog )

Today, she messaged me:

08:14:34 <Anna> Afuna: You asked me to remind you dude, you'd better have gotten 1500 points by now :)
08:16:44 <Afuna> points, afuna
08:16:45 <Anna> Sorry, but I don't know what you mean. Try '/msg Anna help' to see what I can do.
08:16:47 <Afuna> points afuna
08:16:48 <Anna> afuna has 3,394 support points.
08:17:03 <Anna> Afuna: You asked me to remind you okay, make that 1800 points!!!
08:18:02 <Afuna> anna, botsnack (thank you <3)
08:18:02 <Anna> Thanks, Afuna! :D

I guess I did reach my goal, at that!

aveleh, damn you for putting the idea in my head. Was bored in the car while running errands, so I ended up working on the script you asked me to do. I think this does what you wanted (possibly with a few additions).

Right now, you can hide all requests with a certain tag or view only those requests with a certain tag, and you can choose whether your filter is applied persistently (on a new pageload) or will go away once you close the tab.

User interface is rough, but I think it's self-explanatory, though I'd welcome suggestions to improve it. Can't handle filters like "entries|styles", and can't handle both an inclusive filter and an exclusive filter at the same time, but it should be enough for normal boardwork.

Tell me if I got your demands request wrong? ;-)

ETA:
Forgot the link to the script, but it's there now, as well as a brief explanation of what it actually does ;-)

Teehee. I may just have made 648 people very happy. (Not that I'm the only one who worked on that request. Discussed it with pauamma over IRC *g*)

Hm, am 36 points away from the first page. One more week should push me over?

(Talking about this second page, by the way.)

I got a gold star for my work in Syn ^___^

*adds it to collection*

I sometimes feel painfully slow when I tackle stale requests (or worse, tackle requests that become stale as I work on them). The user is getting frustrated because it's been over a week and hey, I'm getting frustrated as well, because it's been over a week. And it can't be helped because some things just aren't going to be cracked that easily.

(Still, it is occasionally frustrating when I think about how active I am, and I realize I've only touched one request in the past two or three days. I'm not complaining: It's just that I sometimes get this bug up my spine that tells me that I should be working faster, so I do, but then I grow careless and have to slow down again ;))

Occasionally, I run into something weird, poke at it a bit, leave it alone, and then come back days later and figure out the basic problem very quickly. However, the thing is that in between the time I left it alone and the time I come back, I've been exposed to things that are tangentially related, and those things-in-between are usually what lead my mind in the right direction. Either that, or it's been there in the back of my mind. So even though the total time I spend directly focused on the request may be relatively short, everything in between is necessary.

^This is the only way I have to stave off guilt when understanding hits me and I realize just how obvious things should have been before. (And yes, I know how silly it is to feel guilt over having completed something. Perhaps it's not guilt, but is more closely related to chagrin?)

Back to my original point, complicated issues take time and effort to figure out. People get frustrated all around when a problem takes longer to resolve than expected, and it's understandable -- so that makes it doubly pleasurable to have a request where the user is very patient about waiting, and very gracious with her thanks.

(I will take heartfelt thanks over points any day ^____^ This is an awesome start to the weekend.)

And just to clarify, the request above was not one of those where I poked at it sporadically until inspiration came. This involved digging through things which I knew nothing about until this week (last week?) so I feel really good that it ended so happily.