Category archives: Snaking

Yesterday I didn't so much as code a single line. Got up, watched cartoons, went back to bed, got up, watched a Tivo'd movie, went back to bed, got up, read email, and went back to bed. Still wound up a little tired, but at least the bags under my eyes are mostly gone. Hands ...

The "webui" system from Cinemon makes it really easy to model a system of objects rapidly, automatically generating a functional interface for manipulating those objects. However, unless you are intimately familiar with the model, it's rather difficult to work with the resulting system. Most of the redesign (beyond simply making the project look better) is ...

For the record, I wound up having to use a mechanism that works like so:

.leftcolumn {
	width: 200px;
	max-width: 200px;
	overflow: hidden;
	position: absolute;
	left: 0px;
	margin-left: 0;
	margin-right: 20;
}
.rightcolumn {
	background-color: #ffffff;
	display: block;
	margin-left: 199px;
}

Which eliminates the rather annoying overflow in the left margin (visually it goes "under" ...

Vex.net provides Zope accounts on request to any of our users, so you can readily create a Zope-based blog like this one with just a few clicks of a mouse. The object to select from the Zope management interface is "CoreBlog". After adding one to your Zope folder, you're off to the races. You can ...

So, I'm almost there with the main-page UI rework. Unfortunately, IE is back to dropping the whole of the main view down below the left-side "info boxes", so totally destroys the effect. At the moment I'm using the original "tabular view" layout for the tree, with just the addition of some custom code to render ...

Spent the bulk of the evening working on a complete rethink of the Cinemon UI. The design is definitely showing the influence of Plone. The CSS is pretty rudimentary, but for some reason IE isn't picking up about half of the directives, which makes the design rather... less beautiful. There also seems to be a ...

I've got most the encoding/decoding working, with minimal correctness checks, but without proper test data I'm hesitant to keep moving forward with the project. So, back to Cinemon, in preparation for getting some feedback from Bryan tomorrow.

Including development of the courseware and printing, we were looking at around $6000 for a full 5-day accelerated course for 10 people. That's a chunk of change, yes, but honestly, pulling together the courseware (which for these topics necessitated almost 2-1/2 weeks of un-billable work) means that we were just barely breaking even (though the ...

Spent the last few hours reviewing the Plone tutorial with which I'm trying to help. There's a lot of writing still to do, figure another 4 hours or so, maybe a little less. There's actually some stuff in the sample code that looks like it wants to be refined as well. Not just doc-strings (which ...

I've cobbled a GLUT VRML view that lets you view any of the included .wrl files, or a set of .wrl files from around the net with a simple click. Unfortunately, most of the previously-present VRML97 files are now gone. Web3D.org has moved VRML97 to "legacy" status and dropped the annotated spec (which had some ...