The Goldfish Chronicles

A much lighter day today - mostly because the morning was filled with going to the dentist to have my teeth worshipped (yes, I’m British and the US dentist does not run screaming… huzzah!). Apart from the usual work stuff of checking out the day’s new bugs (and reading work email and the various ASF lists), I spent a couple of hours figuring out Antlr generated code for the Struts validwhen validator (cf: STR-2997). I’m pretty chuffed that I got a fix+test patch in and that I improved my understanding of Antlr in the process.

Looks like Lang 2.3 may be held up a bit. There are some minor issues that’ll probably get improved a touch, but most importantly it looks like refactoring to one of the classes (Entities) undid the optimisation that a previous issue had asked for. So time for a bit of thinking to figure out how to change the refactoring so as not to hurt the speed.

I started listening to the Open Rights Group mailing list the other day. A Slashdot link (yeah I still read that occasionally) referred to them as the UK’s version of the EFF. Interesting stuff to keep track of.

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