dws's Journaldws's use Perl Journal"But that couldn't possibly break!"- April 29, 2005 We had one of those "This can't possible fail, we didn't change code anywhere near there!" unit test failures today while doing a full test suite run after spending the day on a story card. The failing test file hadn't been touched for a while, nor had the code it was testing. But when I ran the test file by hand, it passed. Uh oh. Long, hard experience has shown that 98% of the time this happens, there's some obscure interaction that's been missed or forgotten, or some other test just...http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/24440?from=rss Riddle me this- April 23, 2005 Why, on a small bare-bones system that doesn't have room for a floppy in the case, or even a connector for a floppy on the motherboard, does the manual insist on making a bootable floppy to upgrade the BIOS I suspect blind copypaste behavior on the part of the manual's authors.http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/24337?from=rss Fighting back chaos, one shelf at a time- April 23, 2005 The project to make my study livable has been growing ever more complex, with simplification just over the horizon. The floor is still stacked with stuff that needs organizing, though it's now in plastic tubs. Shelves have been acquired, and will get bolted to the wall as soon as I can pull the desk back. (And the desk will go on 1" risers when it gets pushed back forward.) This provides the opportunity to rewires the rat's nest behind the desk, or at least use cable ties to contain the...http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/24336?from=rss An unexpected leak- April 12, 2005 DBD::Pg 1.31 leaks memory when you rebind values (e.g., when you execute a second query with values). When you're re-executing a prepared query a small number of times on a slow, periodic basis, this can be tricky to track down. Fedora Core 3 ships with 1.32, which fixes that problem.http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/24150?from=rss Kudos to Newegg- April 12, 2005 I'm liking Newegg.com more and more. Their emailed invoice includes the serial numbers for all of the components I ordered, warranty contact info for parts Newegg doesn't warranty, warranty reminders for parts they do, and FedEx tracking links. Go, e-commerce!http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/24148?from=rss |