…or how pushing one button can quickly mushroom into utter confusion.
The good news is that I managed to work through yet another impossible user story. I had some invaluable help from a coworker, who showed me how, in Gosu, to figure out what is being brought into a pcf file, variable-wise, and how to leverage this, by connecting to other fields in the file and join to other files arrive at the field values I needed. He walked me through one example, where I was able to start from the claim file, keep hitting the period, and scroll down until I arrived at the field I needed, and do a string “contains” to spike out the values I needed to filter on. I did the next example by myself and managed to get it! I also learned about the “has match” function. I still have more work to do as I need to use this same method for payments by check, manual check, ACH, etc., but at least I’ve got the logic figured out and the basic code.
The bad news is that my builds and deploys to the lower environments for our area have been less than successful. We all take turns, for each release period, and our agile team was next. The first few times went well (unless you want to count that unfortunate incident where I built TWICE), but yesterday all hell broke loose. Another team in another area, using the same environment name for their deploy, interfered with us, causing everything to be…well, there’s no other way to say it—an EPIC FAIL. Production Support toiled over this and had me rerun the build and deploy, but when I had to log off at 6:00 p.m. it STILL wasn’t working right. My manager isn’t too concerned, as she figures it’s a lower environment, and we can try again Monday.
In other exciting news, I got together with my former Code Academy peeps for dinner last night! Many of us work together in the same office, but we hadn’t really all connected in a while. We went to a huge arcade/sports bar place that had fantastic food. I attempted to do the basketball toss, but failed miserably—I do better in our grandsons’ driveway. We had a fun time, and it was so nice to catch up.
