PITA != bread
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
:::work im conversation::
(information within brackets is work-sensitive and has been edited)
12:07 PM me: i’m seeing some timing issues
12:07 PM me: on (technology) when you’re (tool)-eligible
12:07 PM dev: oh?
12:08 PM me: not 100% reproducible but on slower connection, when you go to (url)
12:08 PM me: first it loads a page w/out (tool) offer
12:08 PM me: then the page expands and shows (tool) offer
12:08 PM me: (technology) records 2 stats on landing page
12:08 PM me: one saying offer-ineligible
12:08 PM me: and as soon as page completely loads gets another stats showing offer-eligible
12:09 PM dev: ah, dang
12:09 PM me: i didn’t see it on (server 1) but somehow seeing it more often on (server 2)
12:09 PM dev: that’s not good
12:09 PM me: no
12:09 PM me: i’ll add the charles session on the bug
12:09 PM dev: I’m getting JS errors
12:09 PM me: (bug #)
12:09 PM me: on (server 2)?
12:10 PM dev: yeah
12:10 PM me: IE6 or 7
12:10 PM dev: IE7
12:10 PM dev: a somewhat screwed up IE7
12:10 PM dev: let me look into the timing issue
12:10 PM me: ok
12:12 PM me: the error seems to be IE7 only
12:12 PM dev: looks like there are more files we need to push
12:12 PM dev: (file)
12:12 PM me: ok will push that file
12:13 PM dev: this one too:
12:13 PM dev: (file)
12:13 PM dev: I think that should do it though
12:13 PM me: ok
12:17 PM me: now i’m getting different script error
12:17 PM me: object expected
12:23 PM dev: hmm, I can’t repro on (server 1) which suggests there are still files that are out of sync
12:23 PM me: hmm
12:24 PM dev: let me take a closer look
12:24 PM me: ok
12:24 PM dev: ah, I see
12:24 PM dev: (server 2) is using a cached version of (js file)
12:27 PM dev: alright, I submitted the URL via the purge tool
12:27 PM me: ok
12:29 PM me: cache cleared…still an error
12:31 PM dev: huh, it’s a timing issue after all.
12:31 PM dev: sorry this has been such a PITA
12:32 PM dev: i’ll work on a fix
12:32 PM me: …bread?
12:32 PM dev: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+PITA
12:32 PM dev: last definition
12:33 PM me: nice