Archives March 1, 2004
Weirdness and silliness in SNMP (Why do all problems occur simultaneously?)
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Sigh. Half the modems are just plain offline, apparently. No clue why. They can't be reached at all from cinemon, but they can from admin. Blah.
Need to do marketing for projects... (Too much focus on code, not enough on people)
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Question on Python List regarding "what's the point" of PyTable (and BasicProperty). Reminded me that I really need to work on marketing and "soft documentation" materials for the various Open Source projects.
The end of the first day (Blogging day one is finished...)
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Seems like forever since I got up "this morning" and started blogging (I had a 2 or 3 hour nap around 9 or 10 pm, but not a full night's sleep). The sun is lighting up the haze now, "The Time Warp" (original cast version) is now playing over the (loud) traffic outside. The weekend ...
Giving up on Dia (Exporting just isn't working)
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Vindaloo.
What with having to reformat everything in Corel to fix the messed up sizing and fonts, there's no point to using it. I can draw freehand or use Corel directly to get results faster. Have to see how those other proggies Tim mentioned work one of these days too.
Pythius.aop, aspect-oriented toolkit (Maybe I'm missing the point...)
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Aspect oriented programming is an attempt to allow for defining orthogonal aspects of an application in such way that they can be (seamlessly) woven together at run time. pythius' aop.py module provides the machinery for weaving things together (and yes, it does use a metaclass), but doesn't seem to provide global weaving functionality.
PyProtocols needs documentation... (Who am I to throw stones)
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Okay, dirty little secret, PyProtocols uses metaclasses in a really extreme way. I assumed they would, and in looking, yes they do. There's rather a lack of real code being demo'd though. For instance, what does a "normal" class + interface declaration look like? Hard to tell, as the test cases are quite round-about in ...
OpenOffice Presenter has no style... (Why disable a general mechanism for a specific app?)
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Vindaloo.
OO Presenter has this annoying restriction that you can't define new styles. The annoying thing is that the program is obviously style aware (you can change existing styles using the same stylist as everywhere else in OO). Means that I wind up either having to use an outline level to mean "source code sample", or ...
Rob says hi (Old collegue from Tpresence drops a line)
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Vindaloo.
Have been chatting with Rob Ashbaugh for a last few days via email. Rob was the office manager and financial guy, wonderful sense of humour. Spent a lot of time sitting around chatting with him back then.
Yet more licensing silliness... (GPL licensing kills another hour)
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Wasted almost an hour there on debate regarding GPL and FSF licensing issues. There's a weird entry in the GPL FAQ which tries to claim that using a GPL plug-in with a proprietary application is somehow violating the GPL on the plug-in. Can't see the logic of it. Oh well, glad I avoid the whole ...
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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.