Archives 2004

Mostly work on UI stuff again today. Nothing really exciting, just cleaning up and converting to the new UI style. Unfortunately, I didn't wind up getting a chance to work on the product summary document (that was going to be my first task of the day, but then I got side-tracked trying to figure out ...

Today was all about the UI. Mostly refactoring the various pages to use the same basic tabular control where it's useful (and extending the control to support that). The person and group editing pages are now back up and running and at least moderately usable. The trigger editing/inserting isn't working (the choice-of-event control has gone ...

Ken, our long-suffering business-person once again brought up the fact that I should really be moving off of the flaky machine, so I've just asked him to get me some prices for replacing the motherboard, cpu, and memory. I also threw in a replacement for the broken MSNatural (original) keyboard, and a new (cheap) case ...

Need to buy new dancing shoes and a decent shirt (think I'll go for either lime green, red or blue this time) for my suit (yes I do own one). I haven't the foggiest where one goes to get reasonably priced, yet stylish men's footwear in Toronto, I normally buy boots and/or hiking shoes. Luckily ...

Working with Eric this evening has pointed out a few more things that I'll need to work on to make it feel comfortable:

• single-instance operation -- i.e. when I select a .py file and choose "edit" in konqueror I should have the file loaded in the current instance, not starting up another instance


• drag-and-drop -- ...

Turns out that 99.99% of the work of doing ebuilds for Python packages is done for you. You just need to tell the script what the name, description, filename, and download URL of the package are. For SourceForge projects (almost all of mine) there's even built-in support for downloading from the SourceForge mirror sites.

For ...

Congratulations out to Natasha, who graduated from U of T English Literature this afternoon, welcome to the wonderful world of the baccalaureate!

This SFGate article is a rather interesting look at how the people who organise Burning Man go about protecting and supporting those who attend. Worth a look for all those interested in the philosophy of cities.

This SFGate article is a rather interesting look at how the people who organise Burning Man go about protecting and supporting those who attend. Worth a look for all those interested in the philosophy of cities.

Most of the day was spent on graphics :) . Basically on planning out and experimenting with how to create an overview graphic to show the entire cable-modem plant in a compact and efficient-to-create format. Planning to use SVG output with simple substitutions into string templates to keep the overhead down. The client machines are ...