Archives week 4 of 2008
Jan. 28, 2008 - Feb. 3, 2008
Giving up on GNUCash (Delegating accounting/bookkeeping)
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Knight Errant.
I've been tracking my corporate books using GNUCash for about 21 months now. At the start it was quite rough (a number of nasty glitches that have since been fixed), but it's served me reasonably well.
In the end the problem isn't the software, it's that the accountants charge the same to read/review the books ...
Long Day's Wrestling with OLPCGames (Good day, though...)
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Young Coders.
Spent the whole day testing and cleaning up tutorial code for PyCon. Ran smack into a big bug in OLPCGames; a thread encapsulation issue that would cause core dumps every once in a while as DBUS tried to run in the Pygame thread. Basically a network (DBUS) operation was being called synchronously... you can't do ...
Big Ideas on Conflict in the Brain (Interesting "areas of the brain" lecture...)
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Design Theory.
Interesting lecture, touches briefly on the idea of designers (intenders) attempting to set up a conflict in the mind in order to have the user consider the ideas they have not yet been exposed to. General points here and there of interest as well. (Yes, I listen to these lectures as I work).
Bit of time on Productive gameplay (Seem to have a bug in the network setup code...)
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Young Coders.
Spent a few hours this afternoon on trying to make Productive more fun to play. Biggest change was making the "takeover" process much faster (factor of 8), so that you have to react to a takeover attempt within 10s to avoid losing your units. Also implemented a resource cap on each unit so that you ...
OLPC at PyCon 2008 (For those looking for something meaningful...)
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Young Coders.
As those who have signed up for PyCon may already know, I'll be presenting a tutorial on developing Activities for the Sugar platform on the tutorial day before the conference.
There are also a number of OLPC talks scheduled, by Dr. Brown, Charles and Kirby. I believe we're also going to have a ...
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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.