Author archives: Mike
More PySNMP spelunking (Agents of fortune...)
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Snaking.
Spent the half of the day after the management meeting pouring over the PySNMP codebase, trying to decide whether to use PySNMP 4.x or whether to try to teach PySNMP-se 3.5.x how to handle full-featured Agent-side operations. Still no particular resolution. PySNMP 4.x will require some surgery to work with TwistedSNMP, but it does have ...
Writing SNMP Agents in Python (Investigating options takes longer than I'd hoped...)
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Spent almost the whole day today on investigations for how to handle creating a Cinemon SNMP Agent (particularly an HMTS-like entity). There are a few major approaches:
* Extend the existing Agent support in TwistedSNMP to cover just that part of the Agent we need (mostly trap configuration). This already handles the basics of setting/getting, ...
The Question of Conferences (Good question, Bruce)
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Design Theory.
Bruce asked in a comment yesterday what I'd like a Design Theory conference to look like. That caused me to think, and, of course, that's always a bad thing.
For me, the primary criteria for any conference is people. I tend to spend 90% of my time out in the halls chatting with people, hammering ...
Argument for Proportion (First draft of some ramblings...)
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Design Theory.
As you will recall, I have been reading Padovan's "Proportion". Having had a few days to digest the material now I figure it's a good time to write up the arguments as I see them for (and against) using proportional systems in design.
From a perceptual standpoint (the standpoint of our thesis), the primary question ...
I don't hate poker (I just prefer conversation)
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Vindaloo.
Shane (darned poker addict) managed to start up a game during what was supposed to be an evening of coffee and chatting about lives, universes and whatnot. It was okay I suppose, but when you've got that many people playing (well, actually, always) it gets dull. And I won, for the people who were out ...
To PyCon, or not to PyCon? (Priorities?)
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It's weird, but I'm seriously considering skipping PyCon this year. Why? Well, because I need to focus my energies on academic and research interests. It's weird because a month ago I was thinking about proposing multiple talks, tutorials and the like and just assuming I would go.
Maybe go to a design theory conference somewhere ...
And the ugly junkies... (Old VRML99 shot from the holodesk display...)
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Was just wondering if I'd find any screenshots of Holodesk still floating about the net (google images is so cool) and stumbled across this old shot from the VRML99 conference. I looked so wolfmanish back then. There's a screenshot from what looks like a survey of software, I don't recognise the particular content, likely they ...
For the beauty junkies in the crowd (Snaps of flowers and the like...)
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Vindaloo.
While I was out I took a few snaps of buildings and flowers. Nothing too exciting, mostly just vibrant end-of-summer colours and a couple of older buildings on the University of Toronto campus. The shots are all on the eye-candy page for those wanting more.
Fall of Proportion to Van der Laan (Finishing off the book (and another) at Starbucks...)
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Design Theory.
Finished off the Padovan book "Proportion" today. Last hundred pages or so went rather faster than the rest of the book. Rough notes follow:
A scam
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Vindaloo.
Such a scam
He mutters
Walking into Starbucks
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.