Author archives: Mike
Generic repositionable interpreter (Things I should do when I get a chance...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Just killed close to an hour booting into Windows and trying to put together a py2exe'd Cinemon for the demo tonight. What I really want is just a Python interpreter that adds some sub-directory of the interpreter directory to sys.path (with .pth support) then runs the script you specified on the command line.
py2exe just ...
Coincidence and magic (Plans fall apart, then magically reassemble themselves)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
After the meeting with PCI this afternoon I beetled down to the Friendly Thai for dinner with Mark and Dave. Turns out it was actually 6 people for dinner, not just the three of us. By the time we finished, though, the hardworking people had to get to bed so they could get up in ...
Conferencing software (Emulation setup should work better when enabled...)
Written by
on
in
Tuxedo.
One of the things we've been trying to get put together is simple audio-conferencing software for use among the partners in VexTech. Problem is that I've not been able to get Skype working on my workstation (an AMD64 box). However, Tim has got it working, so it's almost certainly a problem with my box.
So, ...
Too many cabs to save the girl
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
On the third jump
Discussing his buildings
In the pouring rain
The cabbie delivered me
To the dioxin pond
Joy of Windows (I'm such a sucker for a beautiful face...)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Friend needed help trying to repair her computer this evening. I'm really not flush enough with time to be messing about with corrupted Windows installs, but you can't just leave a lady in distress.
Turned out to be a corrupted hard disk. Also a broken CD drive, and some loose cables, with no admin password ...
Win32 Python Packages Need EXE Installers (Just too cumbersome otherwise...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
I've just finished pulling together and creating exe installers for all of Cinemon's open-source dependencies (save PostgreSQL). It's quite a list; 18 packages, with one single-module dependency and some internal packages as well. Went fairly well, save that some of the packages were bzip2 compressed (which WinZip doesn't handle).
I originally tried to do a ...
Week fills up too fast (Also, messages from Rosey...)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I'm trying to think when I'll get time to put together the demo on Tim's laptop... guess it'll have to be now-ish, as I'm pretty much booked tomorrow and Tuesday. I think I'm getting to the meeting-exhuastion point... or rather I'm getting to the "I'd really like to work on the product now" point.
Meetings ...
Very pleasant dinner (Meet a new friend)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Dinner at Jazz' place was wonderful. Great food, lots of fun conversations. Jazz' friend Mark was there. Interestingly, his job for Rogers is, effectively, one half of what Cinemon does (the group-of-modems half). Kind of a neat coincidence there.
We (Mark and I) didn't wind up winning (my fault, I'm just not up on pop ...
Hope for Me
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
She says there's hope for me
As she walks down the aisle
Sleep, glorious sleep (Doesn't get much work done, but...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking,
Vindaloo.
I just couldn't get up this morning, so I spent the whole day abed... well... not quite. I actually did a tiny bit of work on the OpenGL-in-ctypes stuff, but hardly enough to be noticable. I keep thinking there has to be a better way to handle the wrapping and stopping to try to find ...
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.