Category archives: Snaking

I've had a persistent problem with a truly trivial little SOAPpy server silently failing with no exceptions, no messages, nothing. So, needing to get this critical feature working ASAP, I created a bog-simple watching script that checked for that SOAPpy server and restarted it when necessary, on the theory that whatever was killing the SOAPpy ...

Spent the first half of the day on technically billable, but effectively unbillable material (because it bills against future sales of a client corporation). After that switched to real billables. Luckily, I have a new employee who spent the whole day on billables... just makes me feel better to know that someone's making money.

I ...

I've finally got StarPy uploaded to SourceForge. Still waiting on getting a mailing list set up, but the SVN is checked in, the homepage is installed, and the file releases are uploaded (all 7 of them). That's about my time budget for this evening (sigh), but at least the annoying administrivia is out of the ...

I've just imported the StarPy source code. Haven't set up the rest of the project yet (need to sleep), but you can get it fresh here:

https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/starpy/trunk

I'll try to get everything set up over the next few days. Maybe get a few other developers on the project too some day.

I'm getting so behind on projects that it's just getting ridiculous. Shidan was asking this evening if I still wanted to work on StarPy... I'm hoping to make it a key part of my toolbox... but I just don't seem to get time to work on it. Though my title is Research and Development I ...

Spent the day at Linux Caffe training Seneca on the VoIP project. Went well. I only wound up having 7 drinks in total, for about $20. Given that wireless access alone often costs $7/hr (and we were there 8.25 hrs) a good deal.

Seneca and I got interviewed by a chap from CBC radio about ...

I've got one bug fix added to StarPy (manager API commands that return ':' in the data payload weren't properly returning the value), but I'm still working on another one. I've got a request in to SourceForge to create a starpy project there (hopefully letting others work on the code-base).

Did a few hours of ...

I had two coffee's at Cafe Diplomatica after the PyGTA meeting. They've kept me productive enough to turn in a fairly full day's work. I'm still not really sleepy, but my hands are on fire. Guess it's time to call it a night. Tomorrow the 7.5 hour dental appointment starts. The TAUG meeting has been ...

Spent the couple of hours between getting the wifi card working and the PyGTA meeting trying to get the nvidia driver to work with X windows. No luck (even with Seneca helping). Burned far too much time on the laptop today... I really should have just let it go and used the hard-link for access... ...

Tomorrow at 7PM is the monthly PyGTA meeting at Linux Caffe. It'll be a less formal meeting than normal, with short talks and discussions and more free socialisation time. If you want to do a 5-10 minute presentation on a project or topic, let me know and I'll put you on the schedule.