# IRC Log Summary - April 27, 2011

* Discussion about ESOLID, a software tool that performs exact boundary evaluation on CSG-trees of primitive solids and returns the B-rep (boundary representation) of resulting solids, with kanzure sharing screenshots of boolean operations on NURBS surfaces.

* kanzure was working on a rewrite of ESOLID in Python (approximately 30% complete) and discussing strategies for testing and implementation, including challenges with writing unit tests for code without knowing expected values.

* Technical discussion about software development approaches, including piecemeal replacement of library functions, handling magic numbers in code, and strategies for testing complex geometric operations.

* Server administration discussion about upgrading Piny (a repository system) on gnusha.org, fixing repository name size limits, and patching Ikiwiki to handle empty master repositories better.

* Brief mention of SETI being shut down (likely referring to the SETI@home project), with kanzure jokingly asking "how am I supposed to get home now without SETI."

* Reference to a World Domination Summit event (http://worlddominationsummit.com/) with a joke about it being "a fun event to stage a hostage crisis."