Critical Mass Baltimore is today. Join me at Charles Street and Redwood Street at 18:00!

An ironic combination of being stuck at work, heavy traffic on I-83 southbound and some other stuff kept me from making it to Critical Mass Baltimore.

I was hoping to ditch out an hour or two early, but I need to be making constant progress on this CRM system during working hours so I can a) not feel obligated to work my fingers off during the weekends and b) get it off my plate and move onto other coding projects that are in desperate need of my attention. I wound up staying at least until I could check in revision 123.

Even so, this evening I intentionally left all my work-related paperwork where it belongs: on my desk at work. Of course considering that this weekend is the company picnic in Middle River, I'm going to wind up thinking about work anyway and not being able to be productive on top of it.

Even now without my development docs, I'm tempted to flesh out a few of the arrays and fix the few things I intentionally broke in the code after lunch in the interests of radical refactoring. Revision 112 was just shy of a "shippable" system, except for the lack of contextual help, instructions, and layout. Silly mortals.

Frankly, I thought the system was fine when it spit out print_r arrays for SQL row output. My boss called the => notation "obvious." I agreed. The customer group did not.

Unfortunately to insert those features and keep the future change cost moderately low, I had to tear down a bunch of my previous structure first.

The end result will be a better system, but it pains me to leave it in this broken state for another 61 hours.

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