I am back

I have not been blogging very often, but I have been working hard. We have created a lot of code and I have a lot of cool projects on the go. Version 4 of our principal product is progressing in fits and starts. We are implementing the foundation using some of the most incomprehensible code that I have ever written.

We corrected a major problem with the PTI (ProjectTypeIndexer) today. This is an object that is repsonsible for finding other addressable objects at runtime, from "nearby" dl'ls, validating the rules associated with them and allowing them to be integrated into the project as first class citizens. The bug had to do with how the change manager rebuilt this object so that once one user identified and integrated a type, it could be distributed to to other user using a commit/synch workflow.

Rarely have we written such simple code that has such a contorted runtime trace.

With this bug fix we are on target to finish implemented basic change management for graphic objects. This project has put such an emphasis on change management (using local and distributed workflows) that I don't think we will ever look at implemented an undo/redo facility in the same way. We learned lots of stuff and when everything starts working it is super cool....