Author archives: Mike
At some point you just have to accept it (Changing core assumptions at the last moment doesn't work...)
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Knight Errant.
I've spent about two solid work-days this week (one un-billable) attempting to find a way to refactor the VoIP project to eliminate some glaring structural problems related to the original spec that keep getting in the way of forward coding. Problem is, they are with core objects that affect pretty much every line of code ...
Hey buddy, looking for an Open Source Python job? (And other miscellany from PyGTA)
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Snaking.
Had a good turnout at PyGTA last night. Aaron presented Panometric's (currently proprietary, may get open-sourced) web-application wiki. In essence this is a mechanism that allows users to edit an application's templates using a customised version of docutils that includes a number of directives for including e.g. auto-generated tables and the like. It works by ...
Mail server disappears again (Grr...)
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Knight Errant.
Once again my machine at home has disappeared. So no email today. I actually set up the PII-450 with dovecot yesterday, I was thinking of moving the mail services over to it with an rdiff-backup to the main machine, but didn't get that done yesterday. Sigh.
Green Fields
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Vindaloo.
Two million people
In crowded concrete canyons
Searching for green fields
Ctypes arrays as storage format (Seems natural given the implementation...)
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Today (and yesterday) I added support for making ctypes arrays first-class array-storage formats for OpenGL-ctypes. That is, you can do this:
import OpenGL
OpenGL.preferredArray( 'ctypesarrays' )
Before you import OpenGL functions in your application and array-producing calls will then use ctypes arrays for the produced arrays (i.e. glGet* will return ctypes arrays instead of Numpy ...
Adding a type for documentation in epydoc (ctypes "Functions" as routine data-types...)
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As mentioned a few posts ago, I've been looking at how to make the OpenGL-ctypes auto-generated documentation useful. What I want to do is to register the ctypes "functions" as regular routines, with docstrings and preferably with structured meta-data such as the data-types of arguments, error-checker and the like displayed in a consistent way.
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PyGTA is this Tuesday (Now with added planning!)
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Aaron Bentley (of Bazaar-NG fame) will be presenting a talk on the Sass web application wiki. We'll be meeting this Tuesday at 6:30pm at Linux Caffe.
That was unbelievably frustrating! (Subversions silliness all day...)
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Knight Errant.
Spent the whole day on the CVS to Subversion migration for one of our projects. Wound up with the mime-types screwed up, then somehow got the repository into a state where it was impossible to merge between a branch and the trunk because the resulting merged file would always be out-of-date.
Eventually just decided to ...
Festooned
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Vindaloo.
Festooned with caring ribbons
She avoids our eyes
Running an email server at home is great (Until it gets turned off while you're out...)
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It seems that either my workstation or my internet connection at home has gone down. Last time this happened it was a cable I'd mistakenly unplugged when grabbing a router. Time before that it was my cousin turning off the machine because it was keeping her awake. Both times, however, there was someone at home ...
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.