Category archives: Snaking
Discussions of programming, particularly of programming Python
Screencasting via Gstreamer from Python (Playing with streaming media on Linux...)
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Rather than charge back into doing work on Cinemon when it's late, I decided to focus instead on one of the side projects that's been sitting there in the project for a while, namely producing a screencast of basic usage for Cinemon. I'm considering one for the VoIP project as well.
What I want is ...
Change is as good as a rest (As old men like me are want to say...)
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Spent the entire day on importing CAD maps into Cinemon. I don't know whether it's just being back in a Twisted-based environment with full sessions, persistent state, a full ORM and the rest, but it seems like it was a far more pleasant 9 hours than 9 hours coding raw CGI with no templating system, ...
Sometimes it's just easier to code something new (That's a bad thing...)
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I finally got time today to work seriously on Cinemon again. Spent the time working on a remoted SNMP query server (i.e. something that can be put in a remote network to do the actual querying while the Cinemon server is outside the network). I initially tried using Twisted's jelly module (via pb), but couldn't ...
It's always the code that's a PITA to code... (That turns out to be superfluous)
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I just ripped out one of those annoying little bits of code; the ones where you check 3 or 4 times saying "are you absolutely sure you want this, it really seems like a bad idea, it's going to cause this problem and that problem and be a pain to implement". It's not that it's ...
More details (I hate details...)
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Another day of fixing trivial bits. Not over yet, a few hours still need to be turned in on the day. I'm thirsty for a good conversation about now, but instead I'll twiddle a few more bits.
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 ...
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.