I was kept busy in April, but a surprising amount of my work was nonproductive, i.e. didn’t lead to a whole lot of income. In some ways this is fine. It’s been my goal to scale back my business due to health issues but also because a lot of the work is rote and boring as I have done some things so many times. But also so much of it becomes something of a hassle. For example, working on your server requires getting credentials, and they are frequent issues where a URL or usename/password is incorrect, requiring more back and forth emails. Usually you have to grant me developer credentials. This takes more time and error. I’m thinking of charging a fee to at least better cover the time and expense involved.
There are also plenty of miscommunications in emails about what the issue actually is. This requires more back and forth. Often when you think you are done, you aren’t. The client has more requests making it hard to move on and do other work.
Anyhow, in April:
- Updated a board using the Basic style from phpBB 3.3.9 to 3.3.11. Updated Google Analytics extension from 1.0.1 to 1.0.6. Couldn’t get into ACP until my IP address was whitelisted.
- Straightened out some issues with my digests extension for a client.
- Provided some advice to straighten out some phpBB issues/quirks.
- Long job with a client trying to restore missing posts. I became a bit exasperated by it all and asked another developer with more patience than me to do it. He eventually finished the work and I asked the client to use him in the future.
