Why is it that software that works really really well in the lab fails as soon as you try to show it off? Case in point. I have been working with a reseller in Canada with some satellite hardware. Fantastic. It has been working. Until he actually tried running a report on the historical data. And then the program unceremoniously crashed! I worked out that the probelm was because I have a database of place names, and in this case every single position was really, really far away from all the place names, since all the places are in Australia, and the positions were in Canada.

I really need to spend some more time working on the reporting side of the software. A couple of weeks back I was talking with frineds, and the subject of Crystal Reports came up. Thinking about that later I realised I had a few copies of the software since I have Visual Studio and Crystal Reports is included. I now just need to work out how to drive the software from VB.NET. Most of the examples given have Crystal Reports being set up to go straight to a database to get the data. I need to get the data via a Web Service, and then process the data. I am guessing that you can do much of this processing in VB.NET but I have not tried yet.

I was looking at ‘The Register’ this morning, and they had a news story that I am intrigued about. A police officer in the UK gave a two year old child a caution for driving on the road without a license or insurance. The child was in a toy motorised car, and was being supervised though. But the police concidered it a motor vehicle, requiring it to be driven by a licensed driver.