I thought I would just give you some update’s on the fun of Busby’s “Obscure Code”.

AKA: The bane of the Internet.

Update 1.

After months of development, and testing we now have data files that meet the hundreds of requirements imposed on us by Busby. The file was uploaded to their Main test server, Inserted into the system which then promptly crashed.

The File was then checked over by “humans” to make sure it complied, which it did. It was reinserted into the system, and Crashed!

No one knows why. There is nobody left from the early days of the Internet, who know how any of this stuff works!

Update 2.

As you are aware, this project is all about integrating with some old archaic parts of the Internet. For those of you interested in how old, I spotted a variable $Noah.

We recently hit a problem where every test we put through broke their system in such a way that they could not reproduce the error even using the test data we provided. Got to love old code.

Their engineers worked night and day for the last week and have finally fixed the problem.  They have rolled back the code to a month ago before they made any changes. 

I believe the old Internet code has become self aware, and is resistant to change.

SkyNet is coming.

Update 3.

It gets better!

After a week trying to evaluate My last “Data File” Busby have decided they are unable to evaluate the data due to their system still being broken from my last test.

So to speed things up they are simply granting me access to their Live system.

Oh the power…   A new system to find the bugs in…