At Your Command
Sep. 7th, 2004 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringIt's been raining reasonably solidly for the past few days. started today after I hung out a load of washing, but I don't mind because it's so good to see some decent rain.
Picked up some Euros and US dollars while I was out. Thomas Cook have their own exchange rates which make my hair stand up, both when I buy foreign currency and when I change it back into real money later if there's any unspent. Hit WheresGeorge.com to register the US currency. They've changed their website a lot and it looks professional instead of the very choppy look it sported previously.
Speaking of choppy, that describes my own play site perfectly. Put up a simple login page and found that it wasn't working but I wasn't getting any detailed errors. Turned out to be my problem - I had the right line in my web.config file, it just wasn't in the right place. Worked my way through it with a little help from the site admins and eventually got my login working. Reasonably proud of this as it involves a stored procedure rather than merely sending username and password directly to the database. Modified it to limit the number of attempts.
I'll probably change the application to something a bit more exciting than a support site for my Bookcrossing, which doesn't need any sort of login. I might upload my old "Magic" data of umpteen years ago if I can find a disk drive that will handle the old format. Might have one in the shed.
Make it a bit more fine-grained and see how it goes. I've been thinking about this for some time, as shown by ancient Usenet posts. At the time it gained a reasonable amount of praise - I remember one chap from the playtest who wanted the game NEVER to end.
Picked up some Euros and US dollars while I was out. Thomas Cook have their own exchange rates which make my hair stand up, both when I buy foreign currency and when I change it back into real money later if there's any unspent. Hit WheresGeorge.com to register the US currency. They've changed their website a lot and it looks professional instead of the very choppy look it sported previously.
Speaking of choppy, that describes my own play site perfectly. Put up a simple login page and found that it wasn't working but I wasn't getting any detailed errors. Turned out to be my problem - I had the right line in my web.config file, it just wasn't in the right place. Worked my way through it with a little help from the site admins and eventually got my login working. Reasonably proud of this as it involves a stored procedure rather than merely sending username and password directly to the database. Modified it to limit the number of attempts.
I'll probably change the application to something a bit more exciting than a support site for my Bookcrossing, which doesn't need any sort of login. I might upload my old "Magic" data of umpteen years ago if I can find a disk drive that will handle the old format. Might have one in the shed.
Make it a bit more fine-grained and see how it goes. I've been thinking about this for some time, as shown by ancient Usenet posts. At the time it gained a reasonable amount of praise - I remember one chap from the playtest who wanted the game NEVER to end.
