Posts Tagged ‘ferret show’

Nidarosilder 2008

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

earlier this month we where at the Nidarosilder ferret exhibition here in Trondheim.

It was pretty fun, we bought some stuff like a new tunnel for the ferrets (they kinda wrecked the old one), and I had a stand for Dyrebeskyttelsen (local society for animal rights).

Buffy won second place in her category (her half sister won first), and we’re quite happy with that as there where many participants in her category. Buffy’s father won Best in Show :)

Pinky won third place in her category( score-wise it was a tie for second place with her almost identical sister :) )

Bwlmeeeh!

Pinky lost her junk!

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Pinky was to the vet Tuesday and was neutered. So any chances she ever had of becoming a ferretmom just became infinitesimal. She is still a bit dozy from the operation and sleeps alot, but she should be back to her good old self in a couple of days.

Her tummy was shaved, and there are like 3 stitches :)

Hopefully her fur will somewhat grow back before the Nidarosildern Ferret show here in trondheim :)

Long weekend, of debugging..

Monday, May 12th, 2008

The last week I have been finishing up the online registration system for Nidarosilder, a local ferret show here in Trondheim that we are attending  in early September.


The system runs on jsp and postgresql and allows user to register, then they receive a password they use to log in. When logged in they enter their name and other info, and can add up to 20 ferrets. Also my friend Anne who organizes the show has a admin page where she can see all users/ferrets, and sorted displays to make it easier to set up the different classes for the show.

Seeing that the ferret system was ready thursday, I got to spend most of this long weekend (Dont have to work monday 12th because of some religion thingy) on my Startrek game.

I debugged the Research system, and had some problems with the object serialization between the server and the client (ObjectOutputStream.writeUnshared() only writes the ROOT object unshared.. I learned that the hard way). I also made the client show a counter that counts to next game turn, a animation that shows while downloading map data, I implemented the Order system, and now it is possible to move a starship.
Below you can see a federation fleet moving to sector 3:7 (the yellow dots show the path) :)

Thursday 22. I will be going to Austria with the people from work, so maybe then I will have the time to implement the build system when there =)

Bye bye tomcat

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

I’ve been using tomcat for quite a couple of years now..

But when making working on a registration page for a “ferret show“, I got so goddamn fed up with two things:

1) Each time I recompiled some of the background Java stuff (beans + database manager) I had to restart the server after recompiling

2) OFTEN after recompiling, for no frakking reason whatsoever. Tomcat would bitch about being unable to find the postgresql driver, even though it was in the common/lib as well as the webapps lib directory..

The second issue would sometimes take 5-10 minutes of removing the file, moving it back, restarting the server, removing work/tmp dirs, before it suddenly and miraculously worked again.. So I finally had it, and downloaded Resin and had it up and running in a few minutes.. Copied over the webapps, and now everything works nicely, and I never have to restart the webserver.

I’ve had some experience with Resin from my previous workplace, using the java php implementation and the JMS system. And Resin seems to be pretty nice, and switching from Tomcat to Resin only took a few minutes.. Did not tweak the config much and set up SSH, that will have to wait for the weekend :)

Pinky is back

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Pinky was away with Anne and Erik this week, at the RoseIldern ferret show in Molde. She was gone in what seemed like forever (49,5 hours), and we are really glad to have her back :)

She came back with two prices (Second place in her category, and BEST albino/white in the entire show with around 200 ferrets)
Pinky ROseildern

She also won some swag (a nice glass thropy for best albino, kibbles, toys and hammocks)
Pinky - Swag