Archives 2005
Floor the accelerator (Module, that is)
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Snaking.
Decided last night I'd work on something that, while part of one of my Open Source projects, would help Cinemon. We use BasicProperty all through Cinemon, and the property overhead for retrievals has bothered me on and off, so I decided to write a little accelerator module that does the trivial __get__ and _getValue functions ...
Features they are a springing (Ajax sneaks in too...)
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Spent the day primarily on new-feature requests, including some very large next-gen features. One of them requires a rather involved, interactive process for defining limiting values, so I decided I'd try to integrate a Nevow LivePage into the web front-end.
It was a bit annoying having to reverse engineer the approach from the examples, (especially ...
When women flirt (Men are reduced to sleepless fools)
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Vindaloo.
I remind myself
She was just flirting
I remind myself
She thinks I'm a bore
I remind myself
But blue dreams
Keep reminding me of her
How many (and which) users are active on your (guarded) Nevow site? (Quicky recipe...)
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Sat down and worked on a long-term wish-list feature, namely "presence" services for the Cinemon front-end. The first part of this is telling the user a) how many users are actively viewing the front-end, and b) which users they are. Well, we know we have this information stored in Nevow's guard.SessionWrapper object, it's just a ...
Gentle smiles for fools
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Vindaloo.
What fool am I
To hang upon the casual smile
Of any passing siren
Literature on a Bus
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Vindaloo.
She seems so pleasant
Reading fine literature on a bus
I don't want to ruin the image
So I avoid her gaze
He holds the shirt
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Vindaloo.
He holds the shirt to his nose
I wonder about the girl
Who hurts him so
Generic repositionable interpreter (Things I should do when I get a chance...)
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Just killed close to an hour booting into Windows and trying to put together a py2exe'd Cinemon for the demo tonight. What I really want is just a Python interpreter that adds some sub-directory of the interpreter directory to sys.path (with .pth support) then runs the script you specified on the command line.
py2exe just ...
Coincidence and magic (Plans fall apart, then magically reassemble themselves)
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Vindaloo.
After the meeting with PCI this afternoon I beetled down to the Friendly Thai for dinner with Mark and Dave. Turns out it was actually 6 people for dinner, not just the three of us. By the time we finished, though, the hardworking people had to get to bed so they could get up in ...
Conferencing software (Emulation setup should work better when enabled...)
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Tuxedo.
One of the things we've been trying to get put together is simple audio-conferencing software for use among the partners in VexTech. Problem is that I've not been able to get Skype working on my workstation (an AMD64 box). However, Tim has got it working, so it's almost certainly a problem with my box.
So, ...
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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.