Month: October 2018

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OPTIONS requests

When I published the Costs to Expect API I was initially bemused, none of my OPTIONS requests worked, they all return “405 method not allowed”.

After searching, I diagnosed the problem. The HTTP OPTIONS request fails because the default PHP-CGI handler does not handle the “OPTIONS” verb.

The fix is simple, update or add the handler in web.config.

<handlers>
<remove name=”PHP72_via_FastCGI” />
<add name=”PHP72_via_FastCGI” path=”*.php” verb=”GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,HEAD,OPTIONS” modules=”FastCgiModule” scriptProcessor=”PATH\To\File\php-cgi.exe” resourceType=”Either” requireAccess=”Script” />
</handlers>

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Reduced development time :(

As I have mentioned before, I’m lucky enough to be able to take time off during the year to work on my projects, every time I take on a new contract my schedule goes out of whack.

When I’m not contracting, outside of real life commitments, I try to dedicate as many as 30hrs per week to work on my projects, when I’m contracting that isn’t possible, a 40hr week with travel doesn’t leave much free time.

The last two weeks have been an adjustment, I managed to log 5.5hrs the first week and 7.5hrs the second week, I’m on track for 10hrs this week.

Is this a real problem, no, the first world called and wants a tissue, the issue is expectations, during my summer off I steamed through my work, with reality hitting, productivity takes a nosedive. Eventually, Pivotal Tracker will update to show more accurate completion times; once I’m three sprints in, until then, it is frustrating looking at completion dates that are optimistic.

Why am I blogging about this? As the site byline says, I was musing.