Saturday, May 1, 2010

Where to now?

Recent events have really unsettled me. First VS's outburst which was followed by RN's departure and finally last night's AW's solid drama culminating in AK's outburst. Now you must understand VS and AK are solid, loyal soldiers of AW and if these people start protesting, issues are serious enough to warrant attention. What's going on? What is making these people react in such ungainly way?
One reason would be that AW's boorish behavior has simply irked them so much that they can't control their emotions. Or another reason could be to psych me out so that I start believing that things are really bad here and I should make a move somewhere else. why? because then it would be one person less to rake in the moolah. I don't know who to trust :-)
On the work front, I managed to fix one really pernicious bug. The behavior was very strange. Randomly, the moves buttons won't disappear on the client. It took me close to 7 days to figure out the bug. The issue was due to network delay. Once server sends a message to client, it would start its timer to monitor move time. Once client receives a message, it starts its own move monitoring time. But if n/w conditions introduce some palpable delay, then the server and client would be starting timers at different instants. So the server might even time out the client while the client is blissfully unaware. And then when server sends another message to client to inform it of whose move it is this time, the client should clear the moves. But it was not doing so :-)
Well the issue is fixed and done. Another step to make the client more stable...

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