*yawn*

Got an IM from rypunked, asking me to look over some freelance stuff she was working on. Before long, a few hours had passed by and we ended up going back and forth through things for most of the late evening. The one thing about working with someone else’s code (and, really, anyone else’s code)… is that it takes a while to get into how they construct things.

For my own stuff, I have particular naming conventions and habits I’ll get into. Throw my own quirks for ActionScript on top of the quirks I have for how I set up my Flash files… and the process of comprehension gets trickier. Perhaps you’ll remember my gorilla analogy. :)

We were able to suss out most of the bugs. But there was one thing, towards the end, that I couldn’t figure out how to do. And it was killing me too – since it seemed the easiest thing to fix. From talking to Grumpy later on in the day, I heard that TS7 may have pitched in (and I’ll bet he was able to figure things out in like ten minutes!).

Gotta love this internet community. :)

Poor rypunked. I think she had been up for like 3 days straight, with a total of six hours of sleep.

Portnoy: I still haven’t been able to reprouduce the error
rypunked: try using both kinds of back/forward buttons
rypunked: like just go back and forth a ton
Portnoy: k
rypunked: maybe yours works and mine doesn’t
rypunked: i only edited number4
Portnoy: uploading
rypunked: k
Portnoy: (Link)
Portnoy: I went into all the questions, and into all the wrongAnswer / rightAnswer movie clips
Portnoy: I took out that extra code for every one.
rypunked: k lets see if i can reproduce it
Portnoy: I’ll be curious to know if you… yeah, what you said. :)
rypunked: so far first time, no
rypunked: second time, no
rypunked: third time, no
rypunked: wow.
rypunked: you might’ve just fixed that problem
Portnoy: I wish I knew, more specifically, what was going on with this… instead of just repeatedly testing, and seeing if errors pop up.
rypunked: i know lol
Portnoy: But, if it works…
Portnoy: :)
rypunked: exactly
Portnoy: If all else fails, I have this little “Jobu” idol, next to the computer. I just need some fried chicken and a shot of vodka as sacrifices…
Portnoy: We’re not out of options yet.