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July 24, 2004
Random 5 Bot Rewritten
Most of you are unaware of my little LiveJournal account, fusiongyro, which is a good thing because there's nothing there. However, I do use it in order to be a member of a certain LiveJournal community, musical_elitist. I'm sure you are all blindingly aware of what a good name that is.
At any rate, I had a piece of software called “Random 5 Email” which worked for about a month and then died mysteriously. I wrote it using a Ruby implementation of Prevayler, called Madeleine. Well, one day it just sort of stopped doing its thing, probably due to an upgrade of either Ruby or Prevayler. This is actually a pretty good case being careful with Prevayler, since you need to be sure that you are always using the right version of whatever you're using. If the dump format or object layout changes at all, you're fucked. There should be a solution to this problem.
Today I rewrote that piece of software. It works for me but I wouldn't call it production ready, so I'm going to hold off on releasing it until it's a little more stable.
Earlier on we went to Alex's old place and picked up some supplies, including a nuker, so we now have proper reheating action.
The cats have basically made up; they play together somewhat, sleep together, and eat from the same bowl. Lllama likes to hide underneath one of the chairs Faust is lending us, and Ebony found somewhere new to hide today that was so effective we were worried we had lost him. We don't know where that place is yet, either.
Tomorrow I am looking forward to writing some CORBA code just to get a feel for it. I would take suggestions if anyone were actually reading this blog. I think I will aim for some kind of networked jukebox, because we can never have enough of those. It might give me a chance to brush up on my Pthreads, too.
Posted by FusionGyro at July 24, 2004 07:27 AM