Fun with extended globbing support in bash. In bash2.05b, if the match list is in excess of 30 or so values, the match takes a second or so to return! And the wait time only grows with the list size. So the AccuRev bash completion has been refactored to not use this feature when completing on the list of AccuRev commands. Long story short, AccuRev completion is now fast for bash2.05b and is known to work with bash3.00.14(1).

It’s been a productive saturday morning so far. Reading about implementing Web Services in Java, fixed AccuRev bash completion, installed sha1sum to test my fedora core4 iso’s, burned fedora4 to disk, and worked on some Ruby scripts for work. Oh and some laundry, breakfast, and coffee (intelligentsia of course). And to boot, it’s only noon. Looks pretty nice outside; so I’ll be out skating for sure in a few hours.

Couple of new updates this weekend. I’m happy to finally post the first release candidate of my AccuRev trigger library. This is an exact mimick of the default example Perl based trigger library that ships with 3.7.1, only (a) it’s in Ruby and (b) it comes with a full testsuite. I’m happy because this means I can now start on my (non-public) custom changes for work. I also posted a second release candidate of the acrubylib to support xml parsing of the admin triggers.

In other news… I turned 30 last tuesday. Amy took me to Jin-Ju for Korean (Andersonville) and we then went to the Hideout to see Metro to see The Academy Is and Hidden In Plain View. I thought my days of raging in the 4th row and coming out drenched were over… not just yet.