Cabling: The cabling was slightly more of a headache than I at first thought...an error in my xsl produced empty slots in the cabling file which then made Athena crash, because I had enabled conversion exceptions in the input stream and then never trapped the exception. Both the file and the reading package are now fixed, although its clear I need better checking of the file so I made a quick C++ command line utility to do that. There is still at least one funny on disk 9c (a duplicated identifier), which probably means there's another funny I haven't spotted yet.
We really need this info in the database, I've given up asking and I'm trying to find another way to get the configuration info.
Decisions: The CERN group is being reorganized and my activities straddle both camps (i.e. two different sections): the detector subsystem and the database infrastructure. So where will I end up? The detectors need software people
in the systems themselves, but the software work I do also needs 'expert' direction and supervision... watch this space.
CherryPy:
Documented the 'PUT' interface and made a
wiki for both the GET and PUT methods. It seems the Muon people are interested in using it and Andrea Formica very quickly made a Java app which demonstrates its usage.
