Although working on an applet to read/write from the filesystem should be simple, it's not. First it had to be signed, which I wanted to do with a real certificate, not enough time so I self-signed it. Second, it had to spark a thread to forever poll the file for updates. Third, my laptop doesn't have nearly enough RAM for java development. Fourth, I dislike applets intensely.
Finally (after about 50 bazillion network blips), gain RDP access into the silly windows machine that hosts the site, and IIS can't find the jar because it's in a virtual directory.. solved that by settling the jar into the root site and setting the codebase parameter up one level.
People asking me all day "how it's going" were really frazzling my nut.
Anyway, I'm in the Ottawa airport, which has free wireless all over the joint (Go Ottawa!) and I think I have fixed the mistake that was crashing the client (opening a thread in the "paint" method is extremely stupid). One cannot think clearly when rushed!
My brain is so needing glucose constantly that I have been super hungry for the last three days. Subsisting on granola bars and other junky things is not cutting it - I need some roast beef!
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