IT WORKS!!!

I've been stressing for the first day of midterm review and accomplished quite a bit.
I've managed to work out some of the bugs to the point that it now caches!
It doesn't hit yet but I might just be able to pull that off by the end of the week.

I've hit my milestone and I'm much more confident about the review this week.
I haven't heard back on my pre-review review from my mentor, but with July 4th holiday weekend I really can't blame him, I celebrated too.

Went to a local amusement park and visited with my friend Eric who I haven't seen much of.
Definitely need to brush up on my air-hockey skills after this project is completed.

Just eight more weeks to completion!

I finally got the Eclipse debugger to play nicely with MySQL!!!

Steps:
make clean
./configure --with-debug (and I modified my flags with -g as well, tho it's not required)

then under Eclipse I did a 'make all'
used --gdb --one-thread when running
be sure to close the 'registers' pane or else MySQL will crash and require a kill -9

I can now step through my code and see it in action,
it really is doing just what I thought it should!
(tho I found the MySQL GUI tools do a lot of things I didn't know about)

I'll be submitting an early review to my mentor tonight.
I'm not too familiar with submitting a diff so I'll probably attach the full source files as well in case I mess it up.
As of tonight I have surpassed 100 hours working on this project!
In a way I wish all this really was for JUST a t-shirt, adding money to the mix is both an incentive and a curse. I can always continue working on the project, even if I don't make the cut though... :)
I just hope my results add up to the effort I've put in.