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Ah, my hometown. I’m so glad I got black holed back to this evil place.

So my neighbor is the old short guy, around 70. Him and his family live across from me. They have a couple teenage kids, etc. Dude seriously looks like death walking, guys got a pacemaker and (obviously) ticker problems.

So The past few weeks off and on, this little shit ass 15 year old, usually with 1-4 of his closest friends come over and harass this poor guy, gets him alllll kinds of pist, gets him swinging, etc. So if I witness this shit going on, I generally grab my giant aluminum Louisville Slugger and go have some kind words with the little shits and they go away. Problem solved, I’m finally turning into a crazy old mean bastard too, damn you neko and your premonitions.

Anyhow, today was an especially bad incident involved this little toolbox of a kid and his trail of other shit ass kids behind him. So they are really freaking this old guy out, he’s swinging, they talking mad shit. So I can’t do my normal thing cause I am home solo with my kid and if they got near my front door I’d have to kill some kids and do some time, no bueno. So I precede to berate the little shits to get them to leave. The little bastard then starts to threaten me, I guess his little ass doesn’t realize I’m like 2ft taller and about 120 lbs heavier…. Ugh, so after him threatening to have his peeps do various awful things to me and whoever calls the cops, I promptly call the cops. I’ll tell you what, I’ve never seen Stockton P.D. arrive so promptly. I dunno, was weird. But I gave em a statement and such, and told them one of the kids friends drove up in a car and spit on the old guy too (which is true btw).

So right after that an ambulance and a fire engine showed up. Old guy is now spending some time in the hospital. I feel bad for the old guy, now has to hang out in a hospital cause these little peckers have nothing better to do than to harass others? As for the threats, not too concerned about some little 15 year old peckers threats. But it really makes me re-think not owning a firearm.

I hate this damn town.

Finally, I am free from the clutches of Ubuntu Linux. They started off as all of the past Linux distros I have used have started, awesome. But then, a few years down the line, they decide, hey lets deviate from standard configuration files, daemon’s, etc. and patch everything to shit so its all interconnected…So I installed Arch Linux recently. My god, this distro is so much better. I can actually run 64 bit Linux, with some 32 bit programs as needed, with no issues. Well, I’ve had to make a few lib32-* packages, but that was also easy as hell. TF2 under Ubuntu, 15-60fps, and freezes a lot. Arch, 60-120fps, with pulseaudio installed for my bluetooth headset for use on ventrilo. Pulseaudio on Ubuntu was fail, and slowed everything down too damn much.

I am happy to report I no longer have to run Ubuntu. They can go try to be like windows/macos all they want, I want no part of it.

No Kde or Gnome either:

• openbox (window manager)
• lxpanel
• conky
• pcmanfm (file manager)

My mem usage is ~200MB with just Linux and my desktop running. I still can’t figure out why I succumbed to letting my desktop be transformed into a resource hog piece of crap that I rarely used as intended. Minimalism FTW.

Godspeed to a great senator. He may have had his rough spots in his personal life, but his commitment to this country never wavered. May he rest in peace.

The world won’t be the same without Ted Kennedy.

The fact that Oracle now owns MySQL scares me. I have decided to officially not develop any software using it anymore. I have decided to stick with an old school database I used to use, that is arguably better anyhow. Firebird SQL (used to be Interbase) FTW.

I also finally upgraded wordpress. I’ve been laggin on that.

Well I’ve been working behind the scenes on redfloe. I trimmed a bunch of code out in my latest builds as I have switched directions a bit on the guts of the project. I have changed my unit testing in order to not have to use GWTTestCase’s, which are slow as hell, and makes me not want to run the tests to begin with.

UI Design is going well. Big thanks to neko of n6design for doing all my image work. I am a code monkey, not a graphic designer. He also named redfloe long ago Besides, without his fairly constant motivation, I would have abandoned this project long ago, especially after being laid off by the company who made GWT. Although having time to actually code is nice

Signing out…

-J

R.I.P Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon.

You all will be greatly missed.

I took a few days off of working on the floe to read a book about cleaning up code, naming your variables/functions/classes/etc to make comments almost unnecessary. I was skeptical at first. But I tried a few of the refactoring thing theys suggested on redfloe. So far it reduced the complexity of a few tests and definately got rid of some duplicate code. Woot. Not to mention being able to tell by reading the code WTF is going on without a ton of comments. Remember, small functions doing one thing. If you try to do more, it needs to be split up. I recommend this book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.

Work on redfloe is going well. I have added much more code and tests in the last few weeks. I’ve also got php unit testing integrated into my ant build file now so the php side of things can be tested locally. I’ve gotten into the swing of things for unit testing before writing code. It took some getting used to, but I have seen the benefits enough now to understand how it works.

I’ve got the object (GWT<->JSON/XML<->PHP) serializer classes integrated for the most part. Since I didn’t originally write the code for these particular classes (although I have changed them quite a bit), it’s taking me a bit longer to setup the test suite for this section. I now know understand why people discourage code-first-test-later strategies.

I’ve got my first batch of icons from n6design . n6ko and I have fleshed out some more UI specific things that I hope to implement this week. With any luck I’ll have a GUI to play with soon to start the real testing.

Well I’ve moved abortu, as well as all the other domains to a new server and registrar. Everything *should* be working as usual. Expect some upgrades and new pages soon (I hope)…

So after not working on RedFloe for quite a few months due to time constraints, I finally sat down to work on it. I finally have a grasp on how to integrate GWTTestCase with ant, so now all of my tests finally pass. Slowly, but they pass. Now I can start writing proper test cases for new widget classes. Finally, some progress.

1. Fix broken code.
2. …
3. Profit!

Until next time…