August was a bad month for me, programming wise.
The code I wrote for Mark was broken. Or rather, it worked under ideal conditions, not The Real World™, and I forgot that TCP connections can stream as little as one byte of data per packet. Not normally an issue because of buffering, but the code I was writing was the buffer implementation (which is pretty much turned on its head in Seminole due to the resource constraints in embedded systems).
Then there was the Graylist fiasco (just today, the code I've written only works on some machines, on others it fails due to some UDP issue I'm missing). And led into the problems I had with mod_blog and spending more time than I wanted to fixing those issues.
Sigh.
Hopefully September will be a better month programming wise.
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