Author archives: Mike
Should have just stayed in bed today (Better for my health...)
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Snaking.
I've had a persistent problem with a truly trivial little SOAPpy server silently failing with no exceptions, no messages, nothing. So, needing to get this critical feature working ASAP, I created a bog-simple watching script that checked for that SOAPpy server and restarted it when necessary, on the theory that whatever was killing the SOAPpy ...
How Often we Crawl
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Vindaloo.
How often we crawl
Into cold-hewn graves
Or slightly warmer yet
No less lonely beds
With great thoughts unsaid
And great deeds undone
Employees are cool! (My half-day in billables...)
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Spent the first half of the day on technically billable, but effectively unbillable material (because it bills against future sales of a client corporation). After that switched to real billables. Luckily, I have a new employee who spent the whole day on billables... just makes me feel better to know that someone's making money.
I ...
Above My Sleeping City
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Vindaloo.
Clouds hang red
Above my sleeping city
Black over water
Good People at Home
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Vindaloo.
It struck me
Sitting in the caffe
Listening to the proprietor
Banter with his loving wife
As the girl across the way
Smiled quietly at their words
That I was surrounded
By good people
At home
Project is ready to go on SourceForge (StarPy needs developers and users now...)
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I've finally got StarPy uploaded to SourceForge. Still waiting on getting a mailing list set up, but the SVN is checked in, the homepage is installed, and the file releases are uploaded (all 7 of them). That's about my time budget for this evening (sigh), but at least the annoying administrivia is out of the ...
StarPy SVN uploaded to SourceForge (My first SourceForge SVN project...)
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I've just imported the StarPy source code. Haven't set up the rest of the project yet (need to sleep), but you can get it fresh here:
https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/starpy/trunk
I'll try to get everything set up over the next few days. Maybe get a few other developers on the project too some day.
I should probably set aside a day sometime soon for Open Source stuff (This is just ridiculous...)
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I'm getting so behind on projects that it's just getting ridiculous. Shidan was asking this evening if I still wanted to work on StarPy... I'm hoping to make it a key part of my toolbox... but I just don't seem to get time to work on it. Though my title is Research and Development I ...
Good first day at the "office" (Linux Caffe is a good place to work so far...)
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Spent the day at Linux Caffe training Seneca on the VoIP project. Went well. I only wound up having 7 drinks in total, for about $20. Given that wireless access alone often costs $7/hr (and we were there 8.25 hrs) a good deal.
Seneca and I got interviewed by a chap from CBC radio about ...
Seem to have OpenVPN working (But I can't really test it from inside the network...)
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Tuxedo.
Okay, I think I've got the OpenVPN connection working now. I'll have to try it out tomorrow morning and fall back to ssh if it fails. Surprisingly involved setup, required compiling a kernel module, editing multiple files, building large numbers of certificates and doing a lot of customisation for the settings.
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.