Reason #4 I’m a Web Designer

No, don’t bother looking, you won’t find reasons 1, 2 & 3 on the blog. I haven’t quite decided what they are yet. Something to do with listening to musac in an air conditioned office, getting paid decently to do something I love, and reading/writing in code…

But reason #4 is that I love to make diagrams. Here is my latest masterpiece. I spent the last 3 hours on it, and I actually enjoyed it so much I worked through my lunch.

I did it as part of my documentation process for a website I’m working on, and because I was getting an error with my paypal payment. For some reason the paymentId wasn’t getting inserted into the right table and I couldn’t figure out why. Once I mapped this puppy out I saw it in a heart beat. Somehow I had two identical variables with different names. I instantiated them both to ” ” and then set one to the payment Id, then I inserted the other one into the table. So the payment id dropped off the face of the earth once the page closed, and the table received a blank entry. Oops. That’s what happens when you rename crucial database columns in the middle of dev and forget to propagate the changes to your code fully…