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Jim about GIT is a PITA (Stupid, stupid, stupid source code control...)
2010-07-25 14:02
> and would have no Trac integ ration The trac-bzr plugin[ 1] seems to provide good integ ration between bzr and t [...]


Dr Clue about Curiouser and curiouser with Asterisk manager interface (pyst doesn't seem to realise that there are event-generating queries)
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I've always been fascinated wi th the Asterisk AMI interface. So much so that I married tha t fascination with the [...]


Mike C. Fletcher about Mocker's hidden gem...
2010-07-03 21:32
Yes, only references in dicti onaries are replaced, so hold ing references in lists, tuple s, etceteras keeps them alive.


90 30 plc about Mocker's hidden gem...
2010-07-03 11:18
They hold references to remove and install?


Mike C. Fletcher about Mocker's hidden gem...
2010-06-24 08:34
There's higher-level objects w hich are tracking what is repl aced (the actual Mock objects) . They hold references [...]


Virgil Dupras about Mocker's hidden gem...
2010-06-24 08:23
I haven't tried it, but it see ms to me like this approach ha s one fundamental problem: If you replace all refs o [...]


Mike C. Fletcher about Mocker's hidden gem...
2010-06-24 08:22
That's the "magic" that made m e go "ooh shiny" :-) . It's a neat little hack to make a nic e feature possible. I [...]


Michael Foord about Mocker's hidden gem...
2010-06-24 06:03
That's even more evil than the mock patch decorator... :-) ( patch only replaces names in s copes - so it patches ou [...]


Yaniv Aknin about Stub/Mock-a-Process Module
2010-06-06 18:33
blush Oh. :-)


Mike C. Fletcher about Stub/Mock-a-Process Module
2010-06-06 11:07
That's what the module does (a utomatically), but on a per-te st-run basis, and only for the process being tested (i [...]


Yaniv Aknin about Stub/Mock-a-Process Module
2010-06-06 02:43
Maybe I'm missing something im portant here, but why not just write small scripts to mimic whatever dangerous utili [...]


Mike C. Fletcher about Stub/Mock-a-Process Module
2010-06-05 15:17
I thought about stubbing out t he python call to the process in the current process, but I want something which stu [...]


Michael Foord about Stub/Mock-a-Process Module
2010-06-05 14:47
Hmm... if Mock isn't flexibl e enough to handle mocking pro cesses adequately then I'd lik e to know how it could b [...]


Omri about ToscaWidgets JQuery and Flot Plotting (Tutorialish-ly)
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2010-05-04 14:36
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Saturday, January 16. 2010

Things I'd like to play with (given enough time)

I'm finding myself spending too much time (again) on this little "chat track" project... which leads me to think about other things I could be playing with:

  • 3D renderers and/or game engines
  • Haskel
  • Mobile games
  • WebGL
  • XMPP (and/or Wave)
  • PyPy
  • Educational tools

I still haven't finished the remaining core piece of the project, but I did get the user's contribution page working and began work on being able to page through previous discussions.  I'm really beginning to regret the choice of CouchDB for the back-end.  It's working perfectly well, but I have literally dozens of pieces of code hanging around for doing SQL-based paging... none of which are applicable to CouchDB.

Maybe I can code up the paging in Haskel... or make the chatting interface 3D... or send XMPP messages :-) .  Or maybe I should concentrating on getting the tool working first :-) .


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Typo: "Haskell" has two "l"s :-)
#1 Martin Geisler on 2010-01-16 05:47 (Reply)
At 4am it has however many 'l's my befuddled brain feels willing to grant it :-) .
#1.1 Mike Fletcher (Homepage) on 2010-01-16 10:31 (Reply)
Well said :-)
#1.1.1 Martin Geisler on 2010-01-16 16:01 (Reply)
CouchDB already has support for pagination using the start_key and count get data. What library are you using?
#2 Myles Braithwaite (Homepage) on 2010-01-16 17:41 (Reply)
Oh, I know about the start/endkey support for pagination, but it's like saying that with offset and limit SQL has pagination support. It's all the silly little details of getting "page X of Y" working right on null result-sets, tracking the offsets/markers, getting back/forward buttons properly enabled/disabled.

None of it is hard, just annoying. I may wind up pulling the webhelpers module in to get the paging support from there... I hate rewriting messy, stupid, done-a-thousand-times code like that.
#2.1 Mike Fletcher (Homepage) on 2010-01-16 22:10 (Reply)
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