Author archives: Mike
A day without connectivity is a sad day indeed (Musings on the need for Cinemon...)
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Snaking.
Today was taken up in its entirety by a meeting with Bryan and Clint regarding the billing front-end for the VOIP platform. Mostly just walking them through the interface, discussing problems, features we want, that kind of thing. However, about an hour before they were scheduled to come, Roger's cable went out. I phoned Rogers, ...
Sheesh, easier to run linux binaries on NetBSD than my Gentoo box (I love my 64 bits, but what do they do for me?)
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Tuxedo.
One of the tasks for today was to get the hardware compilation working. The MTAs are configured via a compiled (and encrypted) file that requires a binary compiler from the manufacturer. Okay, no problem, my workstation is a Gentoo AMD64, it should run the compiler fine. Oops, no. Oh well, for a hoot let's try ...
Before I slip off to sleep (Rosey is alive...)
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Vindaloo.
Rose emailed this evening to say she's fine. She's in a town about an hour East of Trois Pistoles (didn't say what she's doing there). Apparently she'll be there another 2 weeks, heading back the morning of the 23rd.
Oh, other familial news, score from the game at gram's yesterday was 3:2 IIRC. In one ...
Inter-page messaging in Django? (Django form-processing module tutorial and sessionMessage())
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Just reading through the Django tutorial part four. One pattern from my own web-framework that didn't get covered is the "sessionMessage" tool. This is used when you submit a form via post, so you want to send the user to a new page, but you want to tell them what happened during the post ...
Tear down the wall! (Or, at least, begin poking holes though it)
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Today was pretty much the end of the stand-alone operations for the VOIP admin front-end (I'll decide on a real name for this project about the time I finish it, I'm sure). Other than the question of when/how billing is done (i.e. prorated or not), and a few highly-isolated (and parameterised) foreign-key references, nothing done ...
ctypes-ing the night away (Shake-shake-shake your bootie... though that doesn't move one forward very far...)
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Although it was tempting to try to rewrite the whole VOIP billing front-end in Django this evening as a test, I decided that getting OpenGL-ctypes moved forward would be a bigger net win for the world. So, sat down and wrapped the GLUT font pointers and the GLU tessellation structure/functions.
I've got to find a ...
A little more time with Django (All in all I like it...)
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Have just finished reading through the tutorial. Unfortunately, after finding the solution to the admin interface not showing up (you have to specify the "admin" settings file, despite the tutorial's assertion that the two settings files are the same), ran into a failure with a many-to-many relationship (can't delete). No big deal, still able to ...
Thoughts on BasicProperty in the morning (How to unify the dozens of domain-modelling descriptor libraries?)
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As I covered in my talk this past PyCon, we're getting a proliferation of domain-modelling frameworks in Python. I'm actually responsible for 2 of them myself (OpenGLContext's fields and BasicProperty). There's also Traits, Zope's fields, and a similar system in PEAK.
When you consider PyTable (which creates BasicProperty properties from database-schema definitions and builds convenience ...
Nicolas
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Vindaloo.
You give eternally
So you are loved
Made an icon
To sell cola
Children cry your name
With lists of toys attached
They ignore your power
Darker stories from the past
Of powerful magics
Serving implacable justice
They would rather not know
The force behind their favourite myth
So they imagine you fat and jolly ...
Playing with Django
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Decided I needed to play with Django so that I can at least know what it is.
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.