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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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6 July 2004 - 3:47 pm
I've been neglecting this site as of late, so let's see if I can complete a post in the nine minutes it will take my build to complete. First, since I haven't mentioned it since mid-May, the move to the new apartment went fairly well. Moving is a big pain though, and I think I'll pay someone to do it for me next time. The new apartment is very nice and it's great to have a little breathing room. My complaints center on my so-so bathroom and the ickyness of the building's basement/garage. Also, the electrical service is more than a bit spotty (although I understand that today's outage is weather related).
At work things are going pretty well. The application that my team has been working on for nearly a year is mostly complete. We're doing some sweeps to clean up the code, but development is 95% complete. But I don't really do development anymore. Or I haven't done much recently. Instead, I'm trying to get our application certified as "highly available," which means it needs to survive network outages, site failures, db issues, and a host of other things. This is mostly accomplished through redundancy in hardware, but in the course of testing all of these failure scenarios we've exposed a number of interesting issues with our application. If you're interested I can tell you all about how getting a SecureRandom number generates about forty calls to System.gc(), which is a slow, arduous process in the AIX world.
But enough about work. I'm flying to northern Indiana for a wedding this weekend, which should be a lot of fun. I'm one of the ushers, so I need to be up there on Friday for the rehearsal dinner. I should be back on Sunday.
Posted by on 6 July 2004 at 3:47 PM
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