How I spent Saturday

My Saturday started off fairly normal. Took the kids to karate, quick lunch, build a shed. At 4:45PM EDT, that’s when things got interesting.

I’d received an IM from Kristopher Tate, he was recovering the Zooomr PostgreSQL and needed some help. I’d offered him help during the initial 10 minute launch, and now he was taking me up on that offer. The issue, being the RAID adaptor had died, and left the database in an unstable state.

After trying a couple things, the root cause of the database problem became apparent, and the only choice left was to restore the pre-launch database. By 8:30pm we’d worked our way through the restore process, and reset the database to where it was at launch time. Kris had a couple other fixes that needed to be made prior to launch.

During this time I was allowed to access the sandbox system, take screenshots and share them with everyone. I was very impressed with how much quicker Mark III is, and with the new features. I created a couple groups, one of the joys of getting early access.

Just prior to launch there were a couple more database issues, and an issue with Gmail not accepting mail or marking it as spam. The database issues were fixed, but Gmail would have to wait, it was time to launch.

The launch went fairly smoothly and Zooomr Mark III was here to stay. There were a couple of adjustments required, but everyone seemed happy. At 3:30am with things looking pretty good, it was time for me to crash. I no longer have the ability to stay up all night coding like Kris. To be 19 and full of energy again.

Congratulations to Kris and Thomas on rolling out a fine update to Zooomr.