Category archives: Snaking

Spent the evening after work on trying to track down why there's a memory leak in the pointer-management functions in PyOpenGL. Problem is, the code there is this grotty low-level stuff that winds up re-creating the reference-counting mechanism in Python just to track whether anything is referencing a pointer.

Decided to rework it as a ...

Other than some brief over-the-phone debugging, mostly worked on little issues all day, adding links to various pages, refactoring things, adding paging to a long table views, the kind of cleanup you need to do before a project becomes a product.

Still quite a bit to do that way, but that's tomorrow's bugbear. Tonight I'm ...

Only changes are to the BisectOIDStore; allowing it to have sub-OIDStores registered for handling a given table, and allowing it to have callable objects registered to return dynamically calculated values for a given OID.

Those were just features I needed for testing Cinemon, but they should make the writing of test code far simpler in ...

TwistedSNMP is fairly minimal in what it allows on the Agent side, basically static tables mapping OID to value. That's been fine up to now, but I realised as I was trying to track down a bug in Cinemon this afternoon that the reason all of my modems are showing 0-values for their counters in ...

Spent the bulk of the day finishing and then debugging the new hierarchy type, and then figuring out why an old hierarchy type seemed to have been messed up (it wasn't, it's always worked like that, I just never noticed it).

After that, went to our cousin's husband's sister's house for dinner and a game ...

Got the histogram code to the point where it proved it would be largely useless. Need to rethink that now. Interestingly, it proved out some of the wisdom of an "agile" approach. I've actually been bogged down for a while figuring out all of the logic required for the (rather generic) graph-drawing code. Today I ...

I've got so much piling up in PyOpenGL (and other projects) that I really should take a day or 5 to catch up. Though I suppose I could just focus on the work remaining for Cinemon. I don't know. This weekend has been a complete wash. Maybe I should just become a monk and spend ...

As D'Arcy was winding down his work on the EFT2 server, he asked the very obvious question "how does one send email in Twisted". It took me something like 30 minutes to track down the proper response. Once you know where the function is, it's trivial, but finding out which module/function to use is a ...

Colds suck. Not so much because they're inherently bad, but because they aren't bad enough to stop work, but they're bad enough to make working strikingly unpleasant. Talking all day when you have a cold doesn't really help make it more pleasant. Luckily, colds are bad enough that you're allowed to whine in your blog ...

Have spent the last two days working with D'Arcy, who uses vi (that's, vi, not even vim). And every 10 or 20 minutes he'll mis-indent something because he uses spaces. It's often subtle, like a closing-bracket being outdented one line too many (which works fine if it's the last line of a function), such ...