Jay McGavren's Journal

I'm gonna be an uncle (again)!

Well, I’m sort of an uncle now, but that’s Diana’s stepbrother’s kids. (Who are cute as heck, but still…) Being uncle to my brother’s daughter is a lot more direct.

Good luck, Glen and April! Send pictures ASAP!

I hate JAXB.

My code:

primaryPayment.setPaymentCode(paymentCode);
primaryPayment.setStart(convertDate(new Date()));
primaryPayment.setEnd(convertDate(endOfTime()));
primaryPayment.setSun(true);
primaryPayment.setMon(true);
primaryPayment.setTue(true);
primaryPayment.setWeds(true);
primaryPayment.setThur(true);
primaryPayment.setFri(true);
primaryPayment.setSat(true);

My result:

<ns2:GuaranteePayment
  End="9999-12-31"
  Fri="true"
  Mon="true"
  PaymentCode="5"
  Sat="true"
  Start="2008-04-09"
  Sun="true"
  Thur="true"
  Tue="true"
  Type="GuaranteePolicy"
  Weds="true"
>

Wasn’t XML supposed to be at least sort-of human readable?

Josh Pang just published a site… Check out the skater in the 3D models.

Argh… When I am king I will start a game company and hire all my friends. Here’s the roster:

-Josh: Lead artist -Chihiro: Lead 2D artist -Nate: Design -Eric: Website design (duh) -Jeremy: Motion capture (and QA) -Joe: PR -Diana: Testing -Lenny: Lead developer (hey, I’m king and CEO, and he’ll grow into the position)

People don’t do this in the real world because they would lose their friendships, marriage, and children after the first crunch. But we’re in my fantasy, so it will all work out.

configure make make install

Got Ruby running on the dev Solaris box at work. Couldn’t install to home, as my disk quota there is miniscule, but there’s a tools area where we can basically put anything we want, so that’s where it went. Gems are running, and Rails would be too if I could get the Informix library compiled. (I guess only the 64-bit SDK is installed, and I need 32-bit.)

Working in rSpec proper is a much nicer and more stable experience than using the story runner, that’s for sure. I’ll revisit stories once the API stabilizes and is properly documented.

And they took my red Swingline...

I asked a co-worker who got relocated to a new area how he was liking it. He said “the cubes are a foot smaller”.

I’d be annoyed too, but he sounded like it had really ruined his day.