In to work by 6:58am. Still overcoming jet lag from my trip to Japan.

I think maybe no matter how one documents a software project, it's the experience that counts more... for example, I was just reflecting on how I moved the store code to use native PHP sessions. This brought to mind how sessions work in the store and the changes that happened; all of that I experienced because I did it. To convey that in words on a web page or a piece of paper somehow omits something. The essence, or perhaps the Quality of it, in the "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintainence" sense.

Got tinyfugue 50b8 to compile on Leopard tonight; one line was all that was needed. Out of the box the compilation failure is:

malloc.c:15: error: syntax error before 'mmalloc_base'
malloc.c:15: warning: initialization makes integer from
pointer without a cast
malloc.c:15: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
make[1]: *** [malloc.o] Error 1
make: *** [files] Error 2

Add this at line 13:

#include <sys/types.h>

and it should compile. I tested it against my local MOO and it worked fine.

In my spare time I'm reading "Thinking in C++" and really enjoying it. I've spent a few hours trying to get the LambdaMOO code base to compile as C++; it's been really educational to change the code to get it to compile.

I have much larger plans along these lines... and will take a deeper plunge with LambdaMOO when I finish the last two chapters, hopefully in the next couple of days. Certainly by Sunday! Then I'll start volume two.

Today I got rails to talk to two databases at once, and to some legacy tables, at that. This is most yay.

I finally released LHHReplay today. Someone emailed me looking for it! For weeks there's been nothing but an empty SourceForge project.

LHHReplay is a Perl script that uses the output saved from LiveHTTPHeaders. The goal is cheap, easy, high level web application testing.

Some knowledge of Perl is required, and you'll have to install Test::WWW::Mechanize , which has usually required a lot of modules itself.