Category archives: Snaking
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High priority post-launch items (Day of post-launch details...)
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Spent the entire day on items for the VoIP project that were below "launch" level, but needed for release to the general public. First was a password-resetting mechanism, after that continuing work on the guided user-setup pages, then a rework of a set of menus into a single menu.
Tomorrow I'll lose a half-day to ...
Graphics take time (Even when you're just throwing them together as placeholders...)
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Working on the user's guide for creating accounts today, along with the root page for the VoIP configuration. Long boring day of trivial stuff, but I did get to create some graphics.
Nothing really exciting, just icons for accounts, devices and signing up (silouhette, old-fashioned telephone and quill pen respectively). Inkscape worked fairly well for ...
For the acrostically curious (Output of a night's run...)
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I left the acrostic puzzle solver running all night. Strangely, it doesn't appear to have found any 8x8 acrostics with the aspell dictionary, while it's found thousands of 7x7 ones. I would have expected at least one or two 8x8s.
Anyway, the script (basically unchanged, just easier to download and play) and the 7x7 puzzles ...
Red Pillows
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No-one ever told me they had passions
Dreams of screaming in the night
They were lace and velvet wrapped
Dry goods set upon 'reached racks
So I botched the first I fetched one
How was I to know they wanted kisses
When I'd been taught to woo with words
What class covered covering her waiting ...
Very small coffee and a DVD-RW recorder (Plus some mindless hours on acrostics...)
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Had a very small, but quality turnout yesterday for the coffee house. Pleasant evening discussing history, poetry, websites and the like. Brendan has a truly prodigious memory, he can quote greater and lesser poets at length in multiple languages. He didn't recite much of his own, however. Hopefully he'll put up a selection on his ...
Float
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Faced with unceasing noise
Listen
They want to talk
Absorb
Their words that flow forever
Float
Angst, anger and emotion
Feel
They need no more chatter
Wait
They will find their fates
Hope
They will come back home
Mis-spent youth (I'd rather have been writing...)
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Wound up spending the whole day on the VoIP project, wrapping up all the little loose ends of deployment, then writing a largish piece that we'll need to deploy to the public. Which is to say I didn't spend the day on thesis-related work. This is the first week since I started working on the ...
Patrick's created a new dispatcher package (Plugins and all...)
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Just saw the announce on Python List that Patrick (the original creator of the PyDispatcher module) has created a new project for working on the pattern, Louie. Haven't downloaded it to look yet, have burned too much time with mucked up setuptools... some day I'll recover enough to try one again.
Anyway, I think ...
Disappearing hours! (Forgetting to log time is a bad feeling...)
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We (VexTech) do contract programming, and generally I try to bill to the minute, just for those minutes actually spent on the project. It keeps me focused on the needs of the project when working at home.
Unfortunately, today, I had at least an hour, maybe two, where I forgot to record time, mostly because ...
That first call (I'll admit it, there was a bit of a magic moment there...)
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Just finished the first successful test of the Asterisk install. I'm actually using a VoIP account over on our client's network as an inbound communications channel and connecting via a PSTN (regular telephone network) phone to the box sitting next to me. The Asterisk box is behind a NAT-ing firewall configured to trigger an opening ...
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.