Back at it… Again…
Well... I'm back from vacation and it's a bit of a challenge getting caught up to things, but handling email from home made things a lot easier - at least on that front.
The exciting work I was doing on the coding serendipity right before I left for vacation took most of the day, but boy was it worth it. The brute force method of clearing out the positions and reloading them from the files was taking a lot longer than I had planned. Like minutes versus seconds. But with a little work and thinking about the problem carefully, I was able to get then entire process down to about 20 sec. It was very nice to see it working just as I had hoped. This is going to really save time when compared to the 20 min. recycle time if I had had to restart the server.
On a sad note, the CTO resigned while I was away. He'll stay on for a while, but he has always been a real asset to this place. I have to admit that I'm more than a little worried that things won't be as nice around here without his steadying influence, but there's nothing I can do about it, and I know that in the end, things work out, and life goes on.