Archives 2004

Matplotlib (which I was intending to use for plotting the data-value graphs) turns out to be a bit of a pain to install. Looks like it's looking for the "CXX" library as part of the Freetype-wrapper build process, which, it turns out, is actually hard-masked (i.e. -* flag) on Gentoo AMD64.

No idea why this ...

I'm not in hell at this point in the day, which I attribute to reigning in my natural impulse to solve all problems.

You see, at heart I'm a philosopher/theorist. I am happiest when I am searching for the grand patterns in life, the ones that explain everything. That's a great trait when you're ...

After visiting grams (score: 2 all), I spent a solid 7 hours on Cinemon. Finished approximately 10 todo items. Since Bryan isn't too tense about finishing for Tuesday, I think I'll consider the day finished and try to relax a little (particularly, I need to give my hands some time to rest).

Biggest user stories ...

Fixed 3 bugs today, 1 trivial, 1 cosmetic, but important, and 1 a "feature" that was annoying enough to get classified as a bug on Friday. Unfortunately, made 0 headway against the show-stopping bug (the database-failure-on-write one), and only implemented a single trivial todo item (ignoring failures in a particular import).

Need to write up ...

Today's little micro-recipe is how to adapt Nevow's IRequest interface to one which is compatible enough with Zope's TAL request objects that you can port templates from Zope into Twisted fairly quickly. Note, this doesn't include the TemplateAdapter class, nor the Cinemon Template class, which make a Template act like a Nevow resource and add ...

Demo went fairly well, despite 2 major bugs that made it impossible to do a true dress-rehearsal (i.e. stepping through each and every element of a demonstration as if we had an audience). I basically answered emails and then went to sleep when I got home yesterday. Have been sleeping on and off since then. ...

Decided I just wasn't working well enough to keep going last night, so took 4 hours to at least get my eyes to the point where they can focus again (better take the bus up). Still have a couple of things I'd like to get working before the demo, namely the "here are the modems ...

10 or 11 hours to go, and I spend 40 minutes trying to figure out why the emails just will not send. This code has been stable for... well... at least a year now. Finally realise, I'm on Linux, not Windows, and my workstation has no mail transport agent set up (i.e. sendmail just isn't ...

Just fixed a bug in a user story that's not actually part of the demo, but which is a critically useful element. Basically, you need to be able to download the physical hierarchy, edit it and re-upload it. It worked fine, but wound up double-booking each "moved" group. Fix was pretty trivial, but I made ...

The demo code has developed a charming habit of simply reporting "no connection to database" when it tries to update a record. Annoying part is that it's happening after dozens of successful reads on the same connection.

I so don't need this just now. There's enough stuff that needs to be finished that long-since-finished stuff ...