Archives October 2015

I've definitely had to touch Java in the intervening years, but the last big Java project I can remember working on was in 1997. And that was a VR Mutech that we ripped out and replaced with C++ and Javascript ASAP. Java code always seems somewhat like someone is pulling my leg...

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So I pulled the upgrade switch on the (Dell Inspiron) laptop on Friday. It trundled for almost the whole day doing the upgrade, then rebooted to a black-and-totally-unresponsive screen, with no way to switch to virtual consoles... I did a hard-reboot, booted to recovery console and reinstalled the fglrx (proprietary AMD) drivers, then rebooted... and ...

There's a point in every presentation where you realize "I should have asked for an hour (or 8)"... that's about 1/2 way through in my experience, it's where you've filled the work-table with a thousand items, taking each bullet point you wanted to cover and expanding it to full-lecture size, and now you start the ...

So it has taken far too long to get this done. As our migration operations were tightly coupled to South migrations, South was holding us back for far too long. Today I've pretty-much finished the migration. I wound up embedding a virtualenv inside the firmware for each product that has stub packages, the south migrations, ...

So Moisés has been sending me bug-fix patches for PyOpenGL, and todays (actually Sunday's) pointed out that the multiple-return-parameter case was plainly broken in the PyOpenGL wrapper code. Basically the code would only return the *last* parameter which was setOutput()'d so that the low-level wrappers would return somewhat pointless values rather than returning the tuple ...