I landed in DC around 5pm and got the Metro ($3.90) to Twinbrook - man it’s easy! The DoubleTree is directly behind Twinbrook metro station so if you fly into Reagan it’s a breeze to get to. I’d checked in and phone round to see if anyone else had checked in only to find two guys I know from the UK checking in too - they had insider information about where the speakers/sponsors dinner was being held so we headed out to gate crash.
After hooking up with the guys one group left to drink beer in Steve/Perry and Ray’s rooms whilst the remainder went off to play Snap (or another card game that Hal likes!). Now, I’ve been running the FB4.1 cores in various states on this site now for about two weeks but we’d had huge problems getting it to run on BlueDragon, in fact if you had all the BlueDragon error reporting options switched on when you ran the demo app all you got was a white screen! It was only when you turned some of the options off did things start appearing. For the remainder of Friday night myself, David Epler, BarneyB, SteveN took the hotseat in front of the laptop to try and get 4.1 to work on BD and in the end after much raping of the core files SteveN (aka Wolverine) isolated the problem. Line 115 of the fusebox4.1.0.runtime.cfmx.cfm file is as follows:
For some reason this line was the root cause of the problem - possibly an infinite loop resulting in a stackoverflow???? Removing it and replacing about 4 references to the fb_. variable fixed the problem. Wooohoo, the demo app ran but then none of the fuseactions that invoked CFCs worked, that was later narrowed down by David Epler to the <invoke> verb using return=, this will be changed in a later beta release to returnvariable=. With 4.1 now working (we think) on BD it was time to get some sleep.
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