Author archives: Mike
StarPy Twisted Protocols for Asterisk AMI and Asterisk FastAGI (Release so early it's not even finished yet)
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Rather than wait until it's all finished, why not dump the code on the unsuspecting world and let all two or three people who want to use Python with Asterisk play with it. This is still a very early engineering prototype (many of the functions have never been run, let along properly tested), so don't ...
Almost done the FastAGI protocol for Python (Almost as messy as the manager protocol)
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I've built a FastAGI protocol for Twisted, just writing code now to test the various methods. Have already discovered that "HANGUP" doesn't seem to work from a FastAGI application (the MTA just stays on the line even after a hangup).
I've got the whole FastAGI API wrapped as a first-crack hack (at least, as much ...
Cleaning up the Asterisk Manager Interface module (And beginning documentation...)
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Went over the AMI interface I wrote on Wednesday night. It's not as bad as I'd feared, basically seems functional. Probably want to produce a decent interface for waiting/watching events, but for now I've just added a basic "watch for events of this type" hook. I'm tempted to use pydispatcher for it, but for now ...
She'd a Ruler Be
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Vindaloo.
Princess Tee
Would be a Queen
Ruling over me
I'm a jolly jester
She'd a ruler be
Jump and dance
For all to see
Caper to the fair
Jig down to the sea
It's not so much a fear
As joy in what can be
I'll not submit to rulers
Sitting court up in a ...
Dark Eyes of Fatigue
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Vindaloo.
Some women seem to fall into beauty
The universe conspiring at their side
Blessed with good form and clear skin
They forgo powders that hide or smooth
Clean-faced they face the world
These goddesses put those to shame
They might spend a year at labour
Spending all their energy in strife
Yet mortal eyes will ...
Poetry a Smashing Success
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Vindaloo.
Well, that was fun! No more verse this evening, think I need to decompress a bit if I'm going to be able to sleep. About 13 people (didn't actually think to count), and IIRC almost everyone shared a poem, with many sharing their own work. We did quite a few rounds of reading, then sat ...
Poetry Tonight (Yay!)
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Vindaloo.
Poetry tonight
Hopefully many reading
Their own verse
Or found treasures
What sweeter way
To while away a winter's night
Than gentle people
Reading gentle sonnets
Among their like
Captain Word's Lament
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Vindaloo.
The taffeta princess wants to take the hill
So we stomp forward to the crest
Why should we give our very lives
Take from the dark prince
Give it all to silken queen
We want a quiet field somewhere
With a gentle milking cow
A child to read our stories
A wife to kiss our ...
Tulle Princess
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Vindaloo.
How now, what treachery is this
She's after the crown is she now
We'll see what crown she'll wear
When my well penned soldiers
Part her flowing hair
My kingdom
Princely estate of white
I shall not let you fall to some
Queen-seeming girl with
Naught but crowns and silken verse
To protect her from ...
Drinking Too Late
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Vindaloo.
Days disappear in pointless thrashing
When eyes burn with fatigue
But minds refuse to quench their search
So I sleep but do not rest
Waking to dreams of disemboweling
With a cracked fingernail
Know better than to drink so late
Or to try to sleep when it is done
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.