Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Testing, Java & Family
There's been so much going on in the past month. No time to blog! I have to make time. Leaving for Montreal in about 1 hour, and I am waiting for laundry to finish packing. Having a coffee, and decided now was the time.
The planet foods project is well underway now. Another project utilizing the pantheon framework YAY. Check out http://www.pantheoncms.org for more! ;) We are going ahead with the XP (eXtreme Programming) methods. So we need to test test test! One of the first things I did was create a test harness for PHP. spent a couple of days (nights actually), and hammered out a couple of different classes to aid us. The testing offers multiple output (console ... colorized via PEAR classes, HTML, real time, and export to files). I still have to actually "write" the file export, but the hooks are there. Using it is as simple as writing one PHP function for a test, and creating the test object. The adding to the test factory. Neato! I was happy with the short time span I worked with.
Recently I was having troubles with my PC at home. I thought it might have been time for a new one, because a couple of times it made some Handel like beeps and would just randomly shut off. So I thought at first. Until I started running gkrelim again, and noticed when I would play online poker that my CPU would spike to 100% after a couple of minutes of playing. I discovered that there is some bug in the java app from one of the poker sites I play on that obviously does not seem to like my java implementation. I have Suns 1.5. I decided to try a new one, and jumped to 1.6 with the same results. On a whim I tracked down a copy of blackdown's 1.4 (they cease to exist now). To my surprise the 1.4 JVM worked without killing my computer. Neat. So I now have 3 versions of java installed, and konqi is using 1.4, Firefox is on 1.5, and 1.6 is just idle.
My sister was in town for a visit last month as well. Her and Dolly Van came and stayed with me. We went out, visited, they visited friends. They managed to break _both_ of their digital cameras. Never could find the coffee shop they wanted to go to, we had eats and fun. They didn't seem to care much for the football, but come on the Riders were in the western final. Which they won ... and then proceeded to win the Grey Cup the weekend after (Sub Party ... mmmmm ... fat). She is also going to still be in MJ for Christmas (although her 5 AM Xmas day flight is cutting it close!). So I am planning a trip back to the motherland for the holidays.
I have so much more I could talk about, but my ride is here in 50 mins, and I need to get ready. ciao for now, and the Montreal stories will be forthcoming! ΒΆ 10:30:00 PM
The planet foods project is well underway now. Another project utilizing the pantheon framework YAY. Check out http://www.pantheoncms.org for more! ;) We are going ahead with the XP (eXtreme Programming) methods. So we need to test test test! One of the first things I did was create a test harness for PHP. spent a couple of days (nights actually), and hammered out a couple of different classes to aid us. The testing offers multiple output (console ... colorized via PEAR classes, HTML, real time, and export to files). I still have to actually "write" the file export, but the hooks are there. Using it is as simple as writing one PHP function for a test, and creating the test object. The adding to the test factory. Neato! I was happy with the short time span I worked with.
Recently I was having troubles with my PC at home. I thought it might have been time for a new one, because a couple of times it made some Handel like beeps and would just randomly shut off. So I thought at first. Until I started running gkrelim again, and noticed when I would play online poker that my CPU would spike to 100% after a couple of minutes of playing. I discovered that there is some bug in the java app from one of the poker sites I play on that obviously does not seem to like my java implementation. I have Suns 1.5. I decided to try a new one, and jumped to 1.6 with the same results. On a whim I tracked down a copy of blackdown's 1.4 (they cease to exist now). To my surprise the 1.4 JVM worked without killing my computer. Neat. So I now have 3 versions of java installed, and konqi is using 1.4, Firefox is on 1.5, and 1.6 is just idle.
My sister was in town for a visit last month as well. Her and Dolly Van came and stayed with me. We went out, visited, they visited friends. They managed to break _both_ of their digital cameras. Never could find the coffee shop they wanted to go to, we had eats and fun. They didn't seem to care much for the football, but come on the Riders were in the western final. Which they won ... and then proceeded to win the Grey Cup the weekend after (Sub Party ... mmmmm ... fat). She is also going to still be in MJ for Christmas (although her 5 AM Xmas day flight is cutting it close!). So I am planning a trip back to the motherland for the holidays.
I have so much more I could talk about, but my ride is here in 50 mins, and I need to get ready. ciao for now, and the Montreal stories will be forthcoming! ΒΆ 10:30:00 PM
