Maugrim McFiriba's Eve Online Journal

I have spent the last two hours working on a registration scheme for Cidev members to register accounts on the corporation website (http://crimsonindustries.com. The only problem was that after an exercise in utilising the poorly documented Eve-Online API (took some digging in other sources to locate ALL the API server endpoints needed) to allow anyone confirm their registration using their limited userID and apiKey - my unit tests began failing.

Unit tests, if you're not a programmer, are tests written to assert something I programmed is working as intended.

So 12 failures later I started getting worried that PHP DOM was misbehaving (it's a bit of a complex beast to work with). I pulled apart a class, reran tests, and finally ripped out wget in bash as a last resort to see if a few manual URLs and POSTs would turn up the problem.

I immediately saw "Unexpected failure accessing database." turning up as the error message returned from the Eve Online server in it's XML response code.

Suddenly it hit me. The damn Trinity 1.2 patch was running today! I had been running tests against the offlined server!

I feel a bit of an idiot right about now . I'll try the tests again around 16:00 GMT when hopefully the server is back online.