I’m ready for the weekend. Finally getting to meet a couple for dinner, Lloyd & Walter, that live in TC as well. We’ve talked via e-mail for a while but not met in person yet. I think it’ll be very cool to meet a gay couple who have adopted a child. I’m just about ready for that committment so it would be nice to talk to someone who has faced the issues Ian and I will face as gay parents raising a child in an area that is not exactly keen on the idea of gay parenting to say the least.

As usual something in my code acts up about 3 on a Friday, though I think I have it nearly solved. It’s one of those coder’s worst nightmares, where you’ve been coding for about an hour, then you go to run it on the server, and you get an unexplicable error in another part of the code you haven’t touched (in this case the lovely java.lang.NoClasDefFoundError). So, yikes, I have to go pull out about twenty files of changes, restart it, it works fine. Then, I have to slowly reintroduce my changes and restart the server each time until it breaks to find the culprit. I have it narrowed down to one file. It’s all to do with the crappy way we’re running our app right now as a J2EE web app running inside an ATG module. ATG has its classloader, and the web app has another nested inside it. You have to carefully place classes in one or the other depending on who they’re called by and who they call or you’ll get the error I got.

Oh well. A few more minutes and it should be fixed (which doesn’t put me where I wanted to be today at 5, but back where I was at about 3!) and I can just go home and forget about it all until Monday!