Things are less sucky now

I started by spending nearly three hours from when I got to work stepping through the whole data flow process to figure everything out. I documented it. But after three hours one of the components crapped out and I could not go further until I started back up where I left off. I took a little bit of a break because of the long period of debugging.

I grabbed some lunch and went back to the debugging. I got more things figured out with it. So I started to see that some data that was getting passed to the component was not being taken out of the XML and rendered to keep going. So I fixed that. I contacted Jon about getting together once more and showing him what I have.

I went to his house around nine and we went to work. He said he could see why I hate working on this stuff. It is horrible. With his help I got a good idea of what happened when the data hits the component. I knew some stuff I could do to get some stuff fixed.