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                               March of the Bugs
                                        
August was a bad month for me, programming wise. 

The code I wrote for Mark [1] was broken. Or rather, it worked under ideal
conditions, not The Real World™, and I forgot that TCP connections can stream
as little as one byte of data per packet. Not normally an issue because of
buffering, but the code I was writing was the buffer implementation (which is
pretty much turned on its head in Seminole [2] due to the resource
constraints in embedded systems). 

Then there was the Graylist fiasco [3] (just today, the code I've written
only works on some machines, on others it fails due to some UDP issue I'm
missing). And led into the problems I had with mod_blog [4] and spending more
time than I wanted to fixing those issues. 

Sigh. 

Hopefully September will be a better month programming wise. 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/08/06.1
[2] http://gladesoft.com/products/seminole/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/08/18.1
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/08/27.2

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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