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Presentations and talking and developer relations (Oh my!)
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Young Coders.
Arranging a couple of talks at the University of Toronto over the next month (thanks Greg). Also trying to arrange one for the University of Tirana (Albania) for our visit there this month. Still need to contact the University of Waterloo and some of the other local computer science (and related) schools (particularly ones that ...
Maybe a bit too clever in the Postgresql usage ("In case I want to do what I never want to do" bites me...)
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Knight Errant.
Fighting a bug in a billing process most of the afternoon. Basically two errors, one a memory error and one a database buffer exhaustion error. The first I haven't tracked down, but I did work around it. The second appears to be a side effect of a never-used set of features in PyTable that allow ...
Bare-bones example of PyGTK2 + Twisted (Because simple is what you need to start...)
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Snaking.
This is a minimalist version of integrating Twisted and PyGTK2, all it does is create a single PyGTK window, create a Twisted reactor that supports PyGTK and then run the application, closing when you close the PyGTK window. It doesn't actually do anything with the window or the network, it just shows how to initiate ...
Mutechs don't write themselves (Starting...)
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Been playing with mutech designs this evening. I blocked a little when I tried to solve both the network and the graphics issues simultaneously, so I decided to just focus on the network side. Mostly just requirements now. Trying to keep the set as small as possible so that it's relatively easy to write.
Need a good shared object model (Or something like it...)
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Spent the afternoon sitting down to write a little application for the OLPC. In particular, wanted to create a multi-player Reversi game. Just a simple little program that would let 2 people connect and play the game.
By way of reference, it took a couple of hours to code this up in VRML and Javascript ...
More disks is the answer (maybe) (One for portage and one for sugar...)
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I can be a bit dense sometimes. Splitting out the portage directories onto a separate disk allows users to skip downloading them if they don't want them. Splitting off the Sugar directories would allow the developer to update to a new Sugar "release" with just a few tens of megabytes more. That would let developers ...
More disks is the answer (maybe) (One for portage and one for sugar...)
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Young Coders.
I can be a bit dense sometimes. Splitting out the portage directories onto a separate disk allows users to skip downloading them if they don't want them. Splitting off the Sugar directories would allow the developer to update to a new Sugar "release" with just a few tens of megabytes more. That would let developers ...
Seems the hardware has advanced? (More RAM and Flash, more powerful processor...)
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It seems that the hardware specification for the laptop has been quietly expanded. The specs page now lists the processor as the Geode LX, which includes a floating point processor and both L1 and L2 cache. The memory also specs as 256MB (up from 128) and the storage as a 1GB flash drive (up from ...
Seems the hardware has advanced? (More RAM and Flash, more powerful processor...)
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It seems that the hardware specification for the laptop has been quietly expanded. The specs page now lists the processor as the Geode LX, which includes a floating point processor and both L1 and L2 cache. The memory also specs as 256MB (up from 128) and the storage as a 1GB flash drive (up from ...
PyGTA Presentation Goes Smoothly (New developer commitments (one in critical area)...)
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Had a pretty good first external-developer-focused presentation at PyGTA tonight. Adrian brought along the hardware (thanks Adrian! you saved me from getting lynched). We had at least 3 or 4 people install the developer's images tonight and gave out a few CDs as well. Miles had success on booting and running Sugar on VMWare for ...Monthly archives
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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.