Last night, while making hot chocolate, I discovered that the mug I was making it in was among the least microwave-safe mugs in the world.
The reason? After two minutes in the microwave, the contents were beginning to get warm, but the handle was hot enough to raise blisters.
How rubbish is that?
After a helpful response from Charles to my last post on the subject, I pulled the 0.9.3 JRuby build and ran my test against it. On the way I ran into a few other things and tidied up a few more as a result.
Firstly, the jars are now in the jre/lib/ext folder of my Notes client install, rather than putting them in another folder and adding them to JavaUserClasses.
Secondly, something about the new build causes a SecurityException to fire when running the test code again. I’m guessing it’s something to do with the new bytecode manipulation stuff in JRuby, but I don’t know for certain. Granting
permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks", "true";
sorts that out.
And so, we run the test code again. A substantial improvement, knocking the run time down to about 6 seconds – still not really usable as such, but certainly better than before. It might be worth looking into a more real-world sort of test, one which actually opens real documents from real views and manipulates them. I shall also, as requested, be posting the details to the JRuby mailing list to see if anyone there can help.
So I’m back on the WoW train. Pulled back in by the new expansion and enjoying it rather a lot more than I was expecting to – they’ve fixed a lot of the things that annoyed me about it the last time I played, and there seems to be more to do at most of the places in the world I’ve visited since rejoining.
And Outland is very, very pretty. Huge landscapes, swirling streamers of energy in the skies, and sheer drops into nothingness at the edges. All very epic.
So, seems like the MMO that got me back in to MMOs was the one that I got annoyed with and left in the first place. Just goes to show, er, something.
As many of you may know, I have something of a love/hate relationship with Lotus Domino. I love it for some of the things you can do with it, and I hate it for some of the hoops it makes you jump through when you try and do something slightly different. Also I hate LotusScript, but that’s only because I still hang on to a few shreds of my sanity. However, Domino is what I do for a living, so I’m kind of stuck with it.
Anyway. I’ve recently become interested in Ruby, and so set to wondering if it would be possible to in some way use Ruby’s elegant and succinct syntax in my neverending quest to be able to do the same amount of work only with less typing. Thus I came upon the notion of trying to run Ruby scripts from a Notes agent.
So, Vanguard, then. Will this be the game that rekindles my love of all things Massive and Multiplayer? So far, no. The crafting stuff seems more involved, which is a good thing, but I haven’t got far enough to be able to do any of it yet so I don’t know how that pans out. All the low level quests are of the form “kill x of these/kill these and collect y of those” which are, of course, very familiar.
And it’s not as pretty as WoW, but then so few things are. It does apparently have weather systems which move around the world like what real weather systems do, but I haven’t seen any yet.
