posted by Karsten
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16.11.2007
09.11.2007
I've learned my lesson yet again! Never change a running system, expecially when somebody has to use the next working day…
I've been developing an API over the last year, and it is getting pretty big. The developers that use the API are some people from BitMedia in Graz in a webserver environment and myself for a desktop application.
We've been running a server for a couple of weeks without problems. Beginning of the week I found some minor bugs, because of some work on my desktop application, and I immidiately corrected them and sent the updates to the server guys (running from a server in Texas).
Suddenly the server stopped "thinking" correctly, and couldn't do the comparisons that it ought to do. There is (to my knowledge) no reason for this, I haven't changed anything in the comparison classes that change things so dramatically, unless the Graz guys take advantage of some obscure behaviour in my API that I don't know about myself. Furthermore my version of the software worked just out of the box…
At some point today I thought we'd lost all the work people had done the last couple of weeks, but luckily a complete roll-back of the code base managed to bring back the data, and right now I don't care about the small bug that I know is in the system… Afterall my desktop version is able to work without the bug 😉
Now I'm just ready for a nice relaxing week-end with my brother and his family visiting from Denmark…
05.11.2007
Ok, so my road into Uni was really awful today! I started out approx 8:20 and was stopped in a queue less than 400m from my house. There I was sat for 5 minutes moving only 10 meters, so I decided to turn around and work a bit from home.
At 10:00 I decided to take the chance and go to work. Everything went well, except when I reached Uni there were absolutely no parking spaces! I used just as much time finding one reasonably legal space as I did driving here.
This brings me to the KEY thing in this blog. There were nobody attending the entry gate into campus, on the other hand they were out checking cars (hence the need for a legal spot).
So do they leave the gate to allow people in, so that they can catch more people increasing the profits? It would in a strange way make sense….
26.10.2007
If you are going to use Subversion inside the “Great Firewall of University of Reading” (GeaFUoR) then you need to do the following:
Go to the “servers” file of subversion which is located in
your_machines_Documents_and_Settings_folderyour_usernameApplication DataSubversion
find the proxy settings and change them to something like (remember to remove the ‘#’ infront of them):
[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
http-proxy-host = wwwcache.rdg.ac.uk
http-proxy-port = 8080
http-proxy-username = uniUserName
http-proxy-password = yourPassword
# http-compression = no
# No http-timeout, so just use the builtin default.
# No neon-debug-mask, so neon debugging is disabled.
# ssl-authority-files = /path/to/CAcert.pem;/path/to/CAcert2.pe
And subversion will work. Unfortunately if you are using several computers, you’ll have to do this on all of them! I’ve now had to do this twice, and was incouraged to do write it down. This is now done… (A bit overdue, I know P@!!)
And I removed it, but now 5 minutes later it decided to re-install it, because I really really need it!!!!!! So this is a recursive install! This is just so stupid… (Dare I say typical MS user-friendliness, without starting a war.)
24.10.2007
I just ran the newest update of XP, and lo'n'behold they decided that I wanted a search desktop bar on my taskbar.
I DO NOT WANT THAT!!!
So now I know I've got to find a way to remove it, and knowing MS from the past it is probably hidden somewhere counter-intuitive place deep inside some other nasty place…
Does anybody know where?
23.10.2007
I might be old skool, hence I remember the glorious day, when freshers learned functional programming, notably using the CAML-Light programming language.
Well, it seems like MS have been taking notice of this (rather esoteric, yet lovely) language, because they are coming out with a F# language for Visual Studio which is based on CAML Ligths bigger brother O-CAML (Object CAML). So maybe I've got to find my old Functional programming book, and brush it up. Yes, I do think, unfortunately, that I've lost my capabilities in CAML at present, and I even demononstrated it… (Sorry AAA if you see this 😉
Read it all here http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/23/microsoft_f_sharp/
12.10.2007
When preparing for my presentation at ePortfolio 2007 in Maarstrict next week I stumbled upon this webpage http://www.gotgamebook.com/
It talks about all the benefits that gaming has to you learning, and the list is long. Halleluja, we can game on, and become great learners. Life is sweet!!
27.09.2007
I finally found NOAA on Seconlife again (I’d been there a year ago and couldn’t find it again…) It is a place which has lots of learning opportunities, such as a live tsunami, whether forecasting and climate prediction.
This is the slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/170/31/38
20.09.2007
I've just come back from my trip to BitMedia in Graz. The intention of the trip was to teach their technical developer (Nik) my TRACE library (competency description library), which went very well, he seemed to be a very fast learner… Unfortunately we decided on a few extra functionalities that ought to be added to my library, which I'll add today and tomorrow, so I know what I should be doing right now instead of writing this blog 😉
As a bonus Nik was a very knowledgable guy in many interesting areas, such as philosophy, traditional Ontology, esoteric programming, international film / tv shows and last but not least Austrian food / drink traditions. So yes, I had a good time down there…