Author archives: Mike
Randian versus Liberal views in Programming (Joey points out debate+followup regarding the ethics of Open Source)
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Back when I was in high-school, our "extended learning" course was given a "real world" demonstration of Randian versus Liberal ideology via an old party game. If everyone in the group is willing to accept a moderate reward, then everyone can simply have that moderate reward. If any one person gets greedy while everyone else ...
This isn't helping much... (Old (running) code is finally showing the cracks that made me replace it)
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Have spent > 4 hours tracking down problems with the old scanner code. This code is entirely ripped out and replaced with TwistedSNMP in the new version, but the old version is what the customer is running at the moment. I was seriously tempted to just upgrade them to the new version.
Mmmm halva (or halawa, as the package insists) (Silly modernisation of transliterations...)
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Home again, home again, jiggety jig. New license aquired, food store stocked, day's news reviewed, and ready to start work. Sheesh, it's almost 7pm. Been thinking quite a lot about a comment by Shane about my "inner child"...
I should eat some day soon... (The cupboards are bare, the license is expiring, the hard disk is missing!)
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Tomorrow need to run errands before I start work. I've been out of food since early this morning (even the emergency snacks (high calorie and salt content) are gone), and my poor little tummy is going to be unhappy with me come tomorrow. It's getting back at me by expanding my shopping list (never make ...
Widgets should be determined w/out if/elif junk (Things you know you should do right in the first place but never get around to...)
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Well, mostly wound up generalising the planned-object editing system today (modulo a few hours trying to figure out what was wrong with my SNMP queries, (it was just a system mis-configuration in the end, nothing to do with my code)). Got the "choose an existing or other-new-planned" control working nicely. Whipped up a street view, ...
Decorators for classes and methods/functions...
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Alan Green has some comments on PEP 318 up on his Blog. I've seen the PEP a few times so far, and as of yet, I've never been particularly happy with it. It's not that I think it's horribly ugly, it's just that it doesn't seem particularly elegant.
Weirdness and silliness in SNMP (Why do all problems occur simultaneously?)
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Sigh. Half the modems are just plain offline, apparently. No clue why. They can't be reached at all from cinemon, but they can from admin. Blah.
Need to do marketing for projects... (Too much focus on code, not enough on people)
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Question on Python List regarding "what's the point" of PyTable (and BasicProperty). Reminded me that I really need to work on marketing and "soft documentation" materials for the various Open Source projects.
The end of the first day (Blogging day one is finished...)
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Seems like forever since I got up "this morning" and started blogging (I had a 2 or 3 hour nap around 9 or 10 pm, but not a full night's sleep). The sun is lighting up the haze now, "The Time Warp" (original cast version) is now playing over the (loud) traffic outside. The weekend ...
Giving up on Dia (Exporting just isn't working)
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What with having to reformat everything in Corel to fix the messed up sizing and fonts, there's no point to using it. I can draw freehand or use Corel directly to get results faster. Have to see how those other proggies Tim mentioned work one of these days too.
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.