Archives October 2009

The main work laptop has been suspend-less since it was updated to Ubuntu Jaunty, a situation that tended to annoy the heck out of me.  So today as I worked I had the machine do an update to Kubuntu Karmic.

There was some messiness around some broken packages, Open Office Mail Merge, a few support ...

TurboGears uses the Paste commands system to create command-line entry points that, for example, set up your database or start your server.  When you get to larger projects, however, you will often have other things you need to do "in the context of your application" from the command line, such as periodic imports of data, ...

Yesterday we went out and bought two hard-disks to put in the server, just to make sure we don't run out of space.  We had plenty of extra space.  Didn't put them in, just set them on the desk.

So, of course, this morning we woke up to the server's root hard-disk mounted read-only and ...

Spent most of the day playing with TurboGears Authentication/Authorization system.  In particular, I stripped out the "quickstart" configuration and created a "who.ini" based almost-equivalent.  With that, I added an OpenID provider using a repoze plugin... at the end of all that, I can log into my localhost quickstart application with a myopenid.com login.  I've documented ...

PostgreSQL 8.3+ has integrated the old tsearch2 plugin into the distribution.  This lets you do very formal "stemmed" textual queries on a body of text (set of columns in a table).  For instance, imagine we have a table "version_text" that stores all of the text in our version control system in the "text" column.  We ...

Was just playing around with implementing "Brian's Brain" in Numpy/Pygame it's a "life" style automata where there are just 3 rules:

• if cell is dying, cell dies
• if cell is alive, cell starts dying
• if cell is dead and > 2 neighbours are on, cell becomes alive

there was a post about doing this in ...

Spent almost the whole day today on the TurboGears 2.x documentation sprint.  I wound up just wading in and focusing on bringing a single document "up to spec" as it were.  I have an itch to sit down and try to restructure the whole hive of documents.

Along the way had to learn the basics ...