Archives week 15 of 2005
April 11, 2005 - April 17, 2005
Days go quickly when they start unreasonably early, and when you waste them on Windows (A little from column A, a little from column B)
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Bulk of the day was actually spent on finishing the Windows re-install and development-environment setup (including finding the PostgreSQL incantation... ipc is no longer part of it). After that, an hour (well, probably two, but hard to figure what with spending time on the setup at the same time) of packaging and fixing minor bugs ...
Fixed the dual-booting (PostgreSQL setup on Windows still unfinished...)
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Something I should have backed up from the previous windows install: how the silly PostgreSQL services were installed. It's been so long since I've installed it that I'm going to have to track down the secret incantation all over again.
Luckily it turns out that there's a very simple GRUB incantation for booting Win2K off ...
Windows is frustrating me! (Make it stop, mommy!)
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So, finished the revision of the Zonez demo this afternoon, went to run py2exe over it to produce a final set of executables for the client... duh! Py2exe requires Windows, so instead of being a 1 minute process, packaging up the project has turned into a 6+ hour one (and, of course, can't bill the ...
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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.