Archives week 31 of 2006

How can I promise the eternal
When I see stone shattered
Bedrock friendships cracked
Firm foundations sunk
Swallowed in the sands
Of cold creeping time
I cannot promise

One of these days I need to figure out a better name for the new billing system. At the moment I'm calling it "Better Billing" because it's intention is to be better than the legacy system we're using, but that name is already occupied by other billing systems. Just something to keep in the back ...

I'm planning to spend tomorrow on the long-term Open Source project for a general ISP billing system. So tonight I reviewed the code and tried to get some refactoring done. Basically I split out the various sub-schemas into separate modules so that it's easier to follow which pieces are logically connected.

But now TurboGears doesn't ...

Working a bit on OpenGL-ctypes as I wait for Soni. The molehill demo, which renders a multi-coloured NURBS surface with "plastic" lighting is rendering the surface (that is, is creating the nurbs shape) perfectly well, but isn't managing to display the colours.

Today marks the first day where my expenses for each day of work are greater than the income that I personally produce during that day. From this point I have to always get work from my subcontractors sufficient to pay part of their fees. I'm not particularly worried about that, it's just something that hit ...