Archives 2004

I seem to have worked around the big nasty evil database bug. And how, you may ask? By adding a completely extraneous commit into the middle of the hierarchy parsing code. ARGH. There's no reason for it to help, there's no way it should change anything. It's just some silly locking artefact where a SELECT ...

Bryan and one of his peoples are experiencing what appears to be the "big nasty evil database bug" (formerly the "evil database bug") where the database (b)locks in the middle of a hierarchy import (which is the only database operation that's occuring).

This has a lot of secondary effects, as once the database thread is ...

Instead of going to bed I wound up creating a use-case sample for boundaries. This is actually one of the tasks Tim was wanting to accomplish. I don't actually have the huge regex he was using to do the "is it the correct format" check, so I cobbled one together for demonstration purposes.

I've linked ...

Wound up doing a code review (I know, not really pair programming) for D'Arcy and then some actual pair programming with Tim this evening. Tim was trying to use BasicProperty's data-value checking for doing web-form validation and was rather frustrated with it.

No reason it couldn't work, it's just that the generality of BasicProperty would ...

Went to a friend's birthday party this evening. Other than those I already knew, just about everyone was "highly successful", (particularly lots of lawyers and a doctor or two). Thing is, I didn't connect with any of them. That is, in the entire evening I didn't have a single conversation about anything interesting (with someone ...

Spent three or four hours getting PyOpenGL to support FreeGLUT 2.x, no big deal really, just a hack to tell the build system to consider it to be the most modern version of GLUT (and thus to build the whole base-GLUT API), and then wrappers for the FreeGLUT-specific methods/constants.

After that turned my attention to ...

I get up, I work, I snack as I work, I write a few blog postings once in a while, and then I go to sleep. This is not getting me much closer to the good life.

Had a lady remark that one of my friends was "hot" in her hallowe'en costume, then immediately explain it with "though I'm a girl, so I'm not supposed to notice things like that".

I mean, sure, men have been raised to be homophobic and neurotic about their own sexuality enough that it's understood they are ...

Turns out that my time on Monday at the client's client was un-billable... grrr.

Six hours of high-stress "emergency" @#$P dealing with someone else's poor planning (pulling us off of other projects with 10 minutes notice and then neglecting to give us key information), and we can't even charge regular rates for the two of ...

Well, since I got the first 90% done in 11 hours, I guess I should expect that the last 10% will take 99 hours (using the old 90:10 rule). Today was all just web-UI stuff, creating forms, wiring them up to the database, realising that they needed schema changes, changing that, then changing all the ...