Been working like crazy the last couple of days. Spending most of my time on the UAC project–coding all the great Java classes that will make the website run smoothly. Learning a lot more about MySQL (and Connector/J) in the meanwhile. In fact, yesterday in order to get up to speed I spent about two hours reading some relational database theory (stuff I had stupidly forgotten to review when I jumped into MySQL earlier this year, in a very practical way).
Yesterday, after finishing my Java work, I had the pleasure of setting up a Bugzilla for my brother’s web developers. I say pleasure because the Debian bugzilla package rocks and literally makes it an apt-get install bugzilla bugzilla-doc affair. From there I was able to customize it up the wazoo by editing /etc/bugzilla/localconfig and rerunning dpkg-reconfigure bugzilla. Ah, Debian. Makes things so easy.
Bugzilla is really nice when you play with it. I’ve been entering bug reports for my brother on and off as I browse his websites. 10 minutes ago I got bored so I added a bunch of Stephen Wright jokes to Bugzilla’s “quips” feature (displays a random quip on every bugzilla query). Hopefully that’ll keep my brother’s devs entertained as they try to face the growing steep of UI bugs and such.
Anyway, back to work. Just felt I was leaving this web page without love. More to come later, when I’m less under pressure.