Archives 2004
Python's C-api mechanism is just horrible (More #defines than the original)
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Giving up on PyOpenGL for the night. Creating a C-level API for a Python module requires either manually maintaining huge vtables, or somehow modelling the whole set. I've been trying to go with modelling the functions in Python, and that just isn't working, it's too awkward to modify the parts that need modification.
Don't know ...
A day with PyOpenGL (At last)
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Spending the day working on PyOpenGL. So far a couple of significant bugs and one setup problem fixed. Now starting work on the 2.1.0 branch again.
One of my major goals for 2.1.0 is to make the wrappers more flexible wrt which Numpy versions (if any) are loaded, and potentially to allow for substituting Numarray ...
UU tonight (Suppose I should put in an appearance...)
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Was intending to skip it and spend the night working on Cinemon, but I suppose actually talking with Bryan would be a good thing too. Still frustrated with Twisted's documentation. Took a quick break to work on a Job Jar item for the web-checker program.
It's so much easier to work when you have an ...
Twisted needs docstrings!!! (When your primary API docs are auto-generated, you *must* put in docstrings)
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Frustrating couple of hours here trying to get Twisted to either use a serial port or a TCP port to test the EFT server. Mostly it's frustrating because the API documentation doesn't tell you what methods are doing, what they return, what their arguments should be, how to deal with the results to accomplish common ...
Cinemon gets code back from common applications... (Or, my day in slogging...)
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I've been working on other projects for a couple of weeks now, ripping pieces of Cinemon's application framework out and using them for the other projects as I go. Today I took my "day off" to try to move Cinemon forward.
Most of the day was spent working on the hierarchy-importer. That moved forward quite ...
Fried moth is NOT a pleasant scent (From the probably-too-much-info department...)
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Vindaloo.
Rosey recently got me a replacement bulb for the halogen floor lamp in my room. This is a 300W bulb, you know, the kind that dorm students will use to cook puff-pastries.
Our kitchen and bathroom windows are without screens, and always open (to cool the place down), and we get very large moth-like things ...
North Americans really suck at communication (Maybe the rest of the world too...)
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Vindaloo.
Have been vicariously living through a friend who is extricating herself from a job where the working environment went off the cliff a few months ago. I'm often amazed at how bad communication is in most organisations...
Then, this evening, I realised something; we have a 50% divorce rate. That is, with the simplest dynamic ...
Kernel modules need dependency notes (Or... how I got the tablet working)
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Turns out that the "wacom" kernel module in 2.6 kernels is actually just one of about 5 modules you need to load. With all of them loaded, and some xorg.conf settings copied from a howto, the tablet is again "working" under xorg. However, it still has that annoying habit of getting stuck about 10-20 pixels ...
Breaching seems to have worked (finally) (AMD64 seems to be the ticket (GRP helps too))
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So, after this evening's "real" work, I decided once again to try to install Gentoo, but this time I went whole-hog and built with the actual 64-bit architecture (which is far less extensively tested than the 32-bit version). Also decided to use the Gentoo reference platform (GRP) to get the bulk of the compiling done ...
Hardware is starting to get on my nerves... (Or at least the drivers for it...)
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Vindaloo.
Sometime during the week (I think it was Thursday, just before I tried to install Gentoo again, anyway) I was trying to fix the CD-R drive in Windows, which somehow got set to 1x speed (i.e. taking > 1 hour to burn a single CD) when Rosey was using the machine a few weeks ago to ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.