Wavey Davey

Cool, just got accepted into the Google Wave beta. As with Gmail, they give users the ability to invite other users. I have a few invites left, if you'd like one then leave a comment. The invites will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis. Good luck.

GAE Revisted

Since I'm not gaming at the moment, see previous post, had another go getting the Polar Uploader to work, but still suffering with the same SimpleDateFormat problem that I described here.

Shaiya

Been playing Shaiya from Aeria games over the past few months. It's quite a good Fantasy MMO and I can spend a few hours over the weekend playing it.

However, this weekend the servers are suffering massive lag and disconnect problems. Aeria are blaming it interest generated by the PAX event that they are involved with. Doesn't quite ring true to me, as how does an event with a few thousand people cause issues for an MMO game that can host hundreds of thousands? But what do I know ;)

Snow Leopard Upgrade

Upgraded to the latest Mac OSX release, Snow Leopard. In the main all went OK, can't say that there's anything in there that's useful, or killer. Certainly not noticed the speed improvements that were being touted, my Mac still takes 3 minutes to boot :(

The only remedial action I needed to take was to reinstall Boinc and install some Python libraries that went awol.

Metatrader Connection Problems.

Metatrader is one of the platforms that allows you to trade on the Foreign Currency Exchange. It's a great tool, especially as you can automate the trading process.

I leave Metatrader running in the background most of the time, and have occasionally lost the connection to the broker. It's usually not a problem, unless you happen to have some open trades! I wrote a simple Expert Advisor that would periodically check the connection and email you if there was something wrong. You can read more about it, and download the EA, from this thread in the PipCop forum.

Old Projects Never Die

Just had an email from someone enquiring about the changes I made to StatCVS. Wow, that was back in 2005.

StatCVS gives you various statistics about your code in the CVS repository. It's a great tool and provides some real insights into who's doing what. But it always amazed me that it only worked off the head branch. Since the project I was working on did most of the development in a branch, I couldn't run StatCVS on it.

No real problem though, as this is an Open Source project meaning that I could get the code and change it to work with branches. Try doing that with commercial products ;)

Chrome on the Mac

Following on from my earlier post, then you can download builds directly from the Chromium project here.