Archives Aug. 16, 2005
Coffeeshop conversations (Wherein I monopolise the conversation)
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Design Theory.
Went for coffee with Dan yesterday. Afraid I monopolised the conversation somewhat (I really do try not to do that). Mostly because I was thinking about thesis stuff, so kept blathering on about it.It was one of those situations where I realised just how out of practice I've gotten with explaining design and design ...
Need to take some time to work on PyOpenGL-SWIG (OpenGL-ctypes has taken far longer than I expected...)
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Snaking.
I've been focussing so much on the OpenGL-in-ctypes project that I've not been spending any "spare" time on PyOpenGL-SWIG maintenance. Tried to get a submitted patch integrated this evening, wasn't functional. There's at least one newly-wrapped extension module in CVS, and probably need to work on a few more.
Probably need 2 or 3 solid ...
Frameworking I go, frameworking I go (Hi-ho the derry-o, I'm about to cry)
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Slogged through another day of making administrative interfaces today. I just couldn't help building something that looks a heck of a lot like a framework. When you're faced with a dozen or so virutally identical "edit a table of records" user stories you either wind up with a lot of copy-and-paste or you refactor the ...
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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.