I was up kinda late last night, researching streaming webcam interfacing for a work project. It's surprising how much software there is out there to host a webcam/stream it to remote users (usually via a Java applet) - and it's surprising how much of it seems to be really poorly written! I won't name names (although I have emailed the guilty), but I found everything from "give your FTP users rights to execute this .EXE" (with on indication as to what the .exe does, or it's required security profile) to "this assembly requires full trust to the entire drive to run" (even though it uses one folder, it fails it's security assertion if it doesn't have read/write to the whole drive. I finally settled on Webcam32, because it's cheap, cheerful, and seems pretty easy to use. The funny thing is, I may not even be writing this particular work project, I believe that it will be William's while I'm gone (hence the need for me to get the research together, I guess - that's my job!).
Today, I'm a little lethargic but otherwise not feeling too bad at all. I'm definitely in the pre-vacation motiviation drain zone, though. I'd love to find excuses to have some fun today! It's probably okay if I do - I can't do any major software releases this close to a vacation, or I'm guarantying time on the phone trying to fix/rollback the patch while I'm in England. Even with unit tests and a basic regression test suite, it's hard to release something with zero defects!
I wonder what I'll do today. :-)
Mood: relaxed
Music: The silence of my office!
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