I got a really big feature done last week that involves finally getting streaming data into Matlab through a socket connection. It works – kind of. Too bad “kind of working” isn’t enough to anything, since the goal is automation and reliability. Today I found all sorts of holes in it that will be driving me nuts for days, until I can find fixes for them.
Sometimes the feed will randomly drop a few minutes of data at a time. Sometimes the feed will stop sending in the middle of a line and start a new line, causing the loss of just one transaction. I’m not sure if this is the fault of the feed or the way that I programmed it, but it’s probably my fault somehow. ARGH I hate partially working instable programs!!!!