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wait(,) of current-window.

Bugs reported in Proparse sometimes lead me to come up with some pretty funny looking but legal code. The following script displays a couple of strings and then waits for keypress of '(' or ')'.

function wait returns character:
  display "in wait()".
  return "".
end function.

display "hi".
wait().
wait(,) of current-window.

What fun. :)


Registration email and spam filters

Over the weekend we made a change to the Hive's website hosting settings so that reverse DNS works properly, and that should help with spam filtering.

If you never received your registration welcome email from the Hive, then please try "request new password", or else just use the "contact" form to let us know you are having trouble, and we'll send you a password.

I also see from the system's email logs that there are a couple of people who entered email addresses that look perfectly legitimate to me, but the emails are bouncing with "invalid address" type messages. Again, if you aren't getting your registration welcome email, please use the "contact" form to let us know, and we should be able to help you get it sorted out.


Desktop search, code analysis

I've been contracted to do some analysis of the client's code. Naturally, the first thing I did was load up all their source into Callgraph, and generate HTML of all their source. :) Now I have something that is preprocessed, formatted, easy to read, and with hyperlinks between calls and procedures. The best part is, plain text searches of this output HTML are more useful and reliable than unprocessed code would be.

That leads me to my topic. I wrote a little find/grep script with generates a nice HTML list with links to files which contain my search string. It works great, but it takes about 10-20 minutes per search. The need for a desktop index/search application is something that I've avoided until right now.


Progress Technology World for Europe, Middle East and Africa 2006 ( in Finnish )

Matkaraportti

Progress Technology World for Europe, Middle East and Africa 2006
Athens, Greece 10 – 12 September 2006

En ollut ainoa - suomalaisista enkä muunmaalaisista - joka olin positiivisesti yllättynyt tämänvuotisen Progress-käyttäjäpäivien sisällölliseen antiin. Siis toisin kuin viime vuonna Lissabonissa, jossa odotukset ylittivät tarjonnan.


Almost there

It's been several long weeks of struggling with site hosting configuration, web servers, mail servers, Subversion servers, a few different CMS options, and of course, mostly with Drupal and a number of optional modules. But we're getting there!

Subversion is functional, the groups and mailing lists are functional, and the projects are functional. The site look needs work. The site navigation is contentious! We have a temporary logo, a temporary theme, temporary project categories, tentative navigation categories, and a tentative layout for site navigation in general! I'm confident that, in spite of all that's in flux, the important bits are working: Subversion, project issue tracking, and backups.


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