Author archives: Mike

Since I need to get it done quickly, going to do my brainstorming and workup for PyCon topics online. Obviously won't do the final workup online (since then the surprise and fun is lost), but may as well get some feedback on the ideas to know which proposals to put forward.

Just looked at the calendar and realised there's only 2 days left in October. That means 2 days to put together PyCon talk proposals. 2 days to get the invoicing done. 2 days to get the conference bridge mini-project wrapped up and gone. Sigh.

Added a GLX sub-package to OpenGL-ctypes today. It was created using the auto-generation mechanism, which had drifted away from the subclass I created a bit. Seem to be back to usable results now.

Tried to get the WGL sub-package created, but didn't have one of the MSVC libraries I needed to do the auto-generation. Also ...

Mozilla keynote was basically about how to make the minimal contributions of many people collect efficiently into a final product.

Now at the "Pure Data" Artist's Language talk. "csound" is a programming language? I'd thought it was a library. Anyway, interesting little patch language, apparently has Python bindings of some form. Same kind of stuff ...

Going up to a little conference at York University tomorrow morning (8:30 am! I'll have to be out of here by 7:30!). Not presenting, just planning on spending the day "networking" (read talking). If it wraps up early I'll try to get downtown to hit the IEEE discussion of the Cell processor architecture at Ryerson. ...

Rose somehow forgot that I'm trying to stop helping people with their infected Windows machines, so she volunteered me to help her friend. Sigh. Anyway, cool thing happened; browsing the start menu to look for suspicious programs I found PyMol!

I think that's cool. Makes me feel somewhat less dumb about contributing to the network ...

Had a good day for billable hours yesterday, slightly more than 7 hours. Most of that was solidly productive time, churning through tasks to get the two projects wrapped up. Today won't likely be as productive billables-wise, but I can hope.

I decided to try building Eric for the workstation (again) so that I can use the larger monitor, far better chair and generally better ergonomic support for development (comfort matters more and more as I get older). This time I tried to get Eric4 working. Ran into the same basic problem. SIP isn't Python 2.5 ...

I love hiking and especially having someone with whom to share beauty.

We got to climb a couple of (small, easy) cliffs to get down into the grotto (climbing is fun). Unfortunately the camera died while we were down in the grotto (batteries ran out), so I didn't have time to try other settings to ...

Seems like the last two days have been nothing but system failures. Spent a very long day (12+ hours) yesterday battling Qt and/or Asterisk silliness of one type or another in order to get a tiny little project done. Burned hours trying to get Eric3 running on the workstation (with another half hour this morning, ...