Author archives: Mike
Productive day (If somewhat long)
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Knight Errant.
Spent the first part of the day on multiple tasks/tickets, cleaning up loose ends, general development stuff. Then, as the sun began to sink I switched to the remaining open big-ticket items. Just a few minutes shy of 6 billable hours, though that took about 9.5 real hours to complete.
Thinking out loud dump of requirements for ISP Billing System (Open Source from the start, as they say...)
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Knight Errant.
I've just been dumping some of my thoughts into a wiki regarding the possible project to produce an Open Source ISP Billing system for use by small (likely Cable) ISPs. It's by no means a polished document, I basically just scribbled on a piece of paper for a few hours and then transcribed the ideas ...
Hitting targets is fun! (No wonder first-person-shooters are popular in business...)
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Knight Errant.
Hit my target of billable hours (actually, 5 minutes more) for the day. Since then I've been doing a bit of work on the various minutae of making a business run. I blocked on the cards, as I need a business phone number to put on them. Been playing with the text for the web ...
Too Sharp
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Vindaloo.
I grow too weary
To hold my tongue
So too sharp words
Escape
Word Daggers
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Vindaloo.
How does that pleasant day
Disappear in a few words
Leaving just a wistful memory
Truths perceived as daggers
Murder my happy noon
A Fugue
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Vindaloo.
Is it a fugue, I ask myself
As she plays on the air
Smiling at her motions
Taxonomies of Neighbourhoods (Himy's adventures in community building)
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Knight Errant.
Blogging from Linux Caffe. Himy (one of Sacha's friends) is interested in creating neighbourhood-level tools for allowing users to both enhance their own communities and share that information with other similar communities.
I'm thinking it would be helpful if there was a taxonomy of neighbourhood types that would allow communities to self-identify (or be professionally ...
Fonduing the Night Away (My wasted youth...)
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Vindaloo.
Last night was fun!
First batch of fondue I added cheddar... not a good thing, turned into a sort of cheese ball that people were having to poke and prod apart with their veggies (way too hard for use with bread). Second batch was just about right, stuck to the recipe and it had what ...
An application for the $100 laptop (Voice training for children (or adults))
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Knight Errant,
Young Coders.
I've had an idea for a very simple application for the last year or so. It just requires a microphone and reasonable speakers hooked up to a laptop. I think that the OLPC laptop is supposed to have a microphone or microphone jack. Don't know that I'll have time to work on the software, but ...
Refactoring is surprisingly time-consuming (Implications upon implications...)
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Knight Errant.
The bulk of the refactoring started yesterday is now finished. I basically just have a new bit of functionality that falls out as an "of course you'll want that" now that the rest is working. Something about the CRT screen is really bothering my eyes (it's a very good screen, but it's now also very ...
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.