Thursday, January 23, 2003
Left the office at 10pm today. Nor and Dilip were still conducting system test when I left. Shekar and Beth were doing tests of their own too. The whole day was spent in the server room! UDB testing in the morning, AVSS testing in the afternoon. Quite some time was spent trying to make the Java program connect to the AVSS servers. Tried every possible combination of hostname and SID, even got Jing Liang and Ricky involved but finally got a breakthrough when I called Jimmy from Tuas and asked whether there are any other external agencies that uses Java to connect to their Oracle database. And voila! He emailed me a sample code and the culprit all along was the port no! Should have used port 1526 instead of 1521! It was ok from then onwards, testing with them (including simulating payment) continues tomorrow.
Lunch was good, ate with the almost entire dragonboat teams (men and ladies) at KFC. CIO insisted on treating us before he leaves. Actually right after the dragonboat competition in September, he did ask me to organise a lunch treat. But the teams didnt do too well and I wasnt really keen on organising one, so I just kept quiet, hoping he'll just forget about it. But about 3 weeks ago I bumped into him and he said "Hey! What happened to the lunch treat I asked you to organise? Quick, hold one before I leave!" Well, as you wish, sir.
Cant wait for system implementation this Sunday. God Speed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
