Well I’ve jumped on the bandwaggon and downloaded the flock web-browser. First impressions:
The bullet-list support appears broken :).
The favourites system is actually quite nice. Sorta like the GMail appreach to email folders. Having multiple, switchable, categorised bookmark bars is cool too :).
Nice evening in the pub although I should really try to convince my brain there are people whom it is fine to freely associate[1] with and those it isn’t :). Particular appologies to to whom I said something more because it occurred to me than because I thought it to be true.
[1] As in let my, particularly associative, memory fly around with.
I’m an idiot. I spent the first half of today trying to track down a bug which (due to its nature) ended up manifesting itself in a totally non-deterministic place. The C++ code in question looked like this:
// ... inside a method, m_pMutex and
// m_refCount are member variables ...
if(m_pMutex->Lock()) {
m_refCount--;
if(0 == m_refCount) {
delete this;
}
m_pMutex->UnLock();
}
Looks fine? No, of course if m_refCount is 1 on entry I end up deleting the object then trying to access a member variable.
A schoolboy error that I should’ve found in five minutes.
Blatently stolen from :
How long before this hits b3ta? :)
Well after yerterday’s pain I got down and started writing some real code today. It is so pleasing to be given the chance to rewrite much of one’s PhD code from scratch since I can already see how this will be perhaps twice as fast :).
Not many entries for a while…
This is mainly due to having started a new job with a startup here in Cambridge. Currently I am swearing at PDCs, Samba and mixed MS operating system networks. Anyone who has done similar will sympathise I’m sure :).