Author archives: Mike
Where do Saturdays Go
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Vindaloo.
On Saturday as is my plan
I trudge to the distant market
To feed my family here
Cold winds race each other
To find new holes in my
Coat of twelve long years
Sad cow faces stare past me
Never meeting my eyes
Or seeing my smile
I wait my turn in lines
Pushing a ...
Finally getting the portfolio cleaned up (Years and years later...)
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Design Theory.
This isn't really a theory item, but oh well :) . I decided (on looking through Michelle's portfolio this evening) that I really needed to get my own ship in order. First step was to get rid of the cheesy hard-coded pages and move to an actual application to generate pages for individual projects and ...
Mmm latency reduction... (Trading raw performance for scalability and responsiveness)
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Snaking.
I've been working on extending the latency improvements from a few days ago throughout Cinemon. Some of the latency improvements are going into TwistedSNMP. I'm considering adding the parallel.py module to TwistedSNMP as well. The newest incarnation is very useful when you want to break up operations in a Twisted application which, though not "blocking" ...
Why Not
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Vindaloo.
Why not date her
A friend asks
Better prospects
I suppose
She thinks that's sad
I think
I should agree
Yesterday's Smile
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Vindaloo.
A hug yesterday
From some pretty young thing
Made this old man smile
Laptop is getting closer (About 20hrs total I'm guessing...)
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Tuxedo.
The laptop is still trundling away building packages. It's up to 162 of the 183 it has to build, I've seen most of KDE pass by, as well as Firefox and a few others. Unfortunately, some of the versions of the desktop apps (e.g. Firefox) are the "stable" (read old) versions, so I'll have to ...
Hmm, got a little distracted (Happens sometimes...)
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Tuxedo.
I turned on Rose's laptop last night intending to copy the presentation over and upload it. While I was there, though, I googled for the laptop's model and Linux. Apparently the captive drivers work nicely for the wireless card, and everything else is either working or work-aroundable...
So I downloaded the new Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD ...
Passable talk (Should have prepared more...)
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Snaking.
PyGTA went well, not a huge crowd, but 16 or 17 I suppose. Took far longer than I'd hoped to get through the background material (some people had never heard of Asterisk before). I also forgot (stupidly) that the call-duration-callback demo only works locally. Oops.
I'll upload the final version of the slides next time ...
Connection decides to take a vacation (So much for demoing tomorrow...)
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Snaking.
The VoIP connection from our service provider over the internet to my little Asterisk development box has decided it doesn't want to work any more... well, it "works" in the sense that it connects, but the call breaks up too much to transmit DTMF reliably, which makes demoing somewhat difficult.
Now would be a great ...
PyGTA is tomorrow (Don't avoid it just because I'm speaking...)
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For those in Toronto, PyGTA is tomorrow, 7pm at Linux Caffe. I'm going to be doing a general overview of StarPy for those interested in Asterisk programming with Python (and Twisted).
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.