Category archives: Snaking
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Telescoping days (Meeting turns to meetings...)
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Spent basically the whole day in meetings. First 6 hours or so on a Cinemon management meeting. After that I was cajoled into going to the UU meeting (I've been skipping them for quite a few months now).
I'm entirely non-functional just now, so I think I'll head off to bed fairly soon.
No luck figuring out the OpenGLContext flicker (Why would it render to the wrong buffer?)
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I took a nap around 5:00 and only woke up around 10:00. Looking around for something to do (other than futzing around with getting KDE working again), loaded up some OpenGLContext demos and sat thinking about why they are failing.
No insights appeared. Probably should have used the time to work on finishing the PyCon ...
Days go quickly when they start unreasonably early, and when you waste them on Windows (A little from column A, a little from column B)
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Bulk of the day was actually spent on finishing the Windows re-install and development-environment setup (including finding the PostgreSQL incantation... ipc is no longer part of it). After that, an hour (well, probably two, but hard to figure what with spending time on the setup at the same time) of packaging and fixing minor bugs ...
Fixed the dual-booting (PostgreSQL setup on Windows still unfinished...)
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Tuxedo.
Something I should have backed up from the previous windows install: how the silly PostgreSQL services were installed. It's been so long since I've installed it that I'm going to have to track down the secret incantation all over again.
Luckily it turns out that there's a very simple GRUB incantation for booting Win2K off ...
Windows is frustrating me! (Make it stop, mommy!)
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So, finished the revision of the Zonez demo this afternoon, went to run py2exe over it to produce a final set of executables for the client... duh! Py2exe requires Windows, so instead of being a 1 minute process, packaging up the project has turned into a 6+ hour one (and, of course, can't bill the ...
Nevow's templates are quite elegant (Just wish there was some documentation...)
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Spent the whole day on Zonez work, with an hour in the middle for a meeting with Stephen (the client). Kept going longer than I should have thinking I could get the whole thing done today, just wound up with sore hands. XXX is going to be off at a feast, so can't phone her ...
Days of raging cleaning (Keeping it managable is just as important as building it in the first place)
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Spent the whole day today either quashing little bugs that had crept into the Cinemon 1.0 tree (or were bothering Tim in BasicProperty), or cleaning out the cruft in the Cinemon issue tracker. Oh, also did some work on learning rc.d syntax and structure before realising that rc.local was the preferred approach... and did some ...
Long days are made of these (Who am I to disagree...)
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Most of the work-day was occupied with a management meeting. After that answered a few emails, then did a few hours on a project that's just come free from an external block, so is now back in my court.
Made some curry, then helped Rosey with her assignments (due tomorrow, of course). The curry turned ...
Need a better book-keeping solution (Tracking down receipts for Ken tomorrow...)
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Today was all work on Cinemon 2.0 features. Took a break mid-day to run out and buy groceries, since we've not had any since I got home from PyCon... I bought a passel or two, to restock the depleted "emergency food" supplies (frozen chicken nuggets, frozen veggies, rice, beans) but when I got home Rosey ...
Spoke too soon (Wrong-buffer rendering is still happening...)
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The fix for the display "hiccups" in OpenGLContext turns out not to be a fix at all... it just pushed the timing off in that particular case so that it didn't happen. Other tests are now showing the effect (the display displays the new frame for an instant and then redisplays the original for one ...
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.