Adam, Nicky, and I ate lunch at Applebee’s, where I enjoyed a bourbon street steak. Shortly after, I left for the College of Computing to work on the next autograder for CS1322. I tried to find a way to compile java source to byte-code completely in memory, that is, without having to load or write any files to disk. I was only partly successful. I still can’t load a Class without first generating a .class file on disk. I’m also having to use Sun specific Java methods to get this to work at all, which is less than optimal.

Several headaches later, I decided to go home. There, I updated my Windows XP installation and installed StepMania. I also installed Visual Studio .NET Enterprise on the Windows 2000 virtual machine.