Author archives: Mike
Clintonian Virgin (Why hasn't this phrasing taken off?)
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There are a few uses of it on Google, and there's a number of references to "virgin in the Clintonian sense", but the phrase itself just doesn't seem to have picked up the momentum I'd thought it would based on its coolness factor.
I mean, it's an oblique enough reference not to be too salty ...
Messages from Trois Pistoles (Rosey's aquatic excursions...)
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Rosey has been accepted onto the Toronto School Board's eligible-to-hire list. That means (AFAICT) that she may get (part-time/temporary) teaching work within Toronto starting in September. You can read about it on her blog...
Datetime goodness (Long overdue todo items for BasicProperty)
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After the party at gram's place (Canada Day) I took a bit of a nap, then started working on BasicProperty again. Decided to focus on the date/time types, as they really need to get updated to allow using Python 2.3+ datetime types (they currently only allow using mxDateTime).
I should probably also work on stripping ...
Floor the accelerator (Module, that is)
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Decided last night I'd work on something that, while part of one of my Open Source projects, would help Cinemon. We use BasicProperty all through Cinemon, and the property overhead for retrievals has bothered me on and off, so I decided to write a little accelerator module that does the trivial __get__ and _getValue functions ...
Features they are a springing (Ajax sneaks in too...)
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Spent the day primarily on new-feature requests, including some very large next-gen features. One of them requires a rather involved, interactive process for defining limiting values, so I decided I'd try to integrate a Nevow LivePage into the web front-end.
It was a bit annoying having to reverse engineer the approach from the examples, (especially ...
When women flirt (Men are reduced to sleepless fools)
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I remind myself
She was just flirting
I remind myself
She thinks I'm a bore
I remind myself
But blue dreams
Keep reminding me of her
How many (and which) users are active on your (guarded) Nevow site? (Quicky recipe...)
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Sat down and worked on a long-term wish-list feature, namely "presence" services for the Cinemon front-end. The first part of this is telling the user a) how many users are actively viewing the front-end, and b) which users they are. Well, we know we have this information stored in Nevow's guard.SessionWrapper object, it's just a ...
Gentle smiles for fools
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What fool am I
To hang upon the casual smile
Of any passing siren
Literature on a Bus
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She seems so pleasant
Reading fine literature on a bus
I don't want to ruin the image
So I avoid her gaze
He holds the shirt
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He holds the shirt to his nose
I wonder about the girl
Who hurts him so
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.