Author archives: Mike
A slogging we have gone (And some shopping too...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Today was all about the UI. Mostly refactoring the various pages to use the same basic tabular control where it's useful (and extending the control to support that). The person and group editing pages are now back up and running and at least moderately usable. The trigger editing/inserting isn't working (the choice-of-event control has gone ...
Hmm, still up (Realised I have to get moving on replacing the computer)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Ken, our long-suffering business-person once again brought up the fact that I should really be moving off of the flaky machine, so I've just asked him to get me some prices for replacing the motherboard, cpu, and memory. I also threw in a replacement for the broken MSNatural (original) keyboard, and a new (cheap) case ...
Shopping tomorrow (Can't look shabby at the wedding...)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Need to buy new dancing shoes and a decent shirt (think I'll go for either lime green, red or blue this time) for my suit (yes I do own one). I haven't the foggiest where one goes to get reasonably priced, yet stylish men's footwear in Toronto, I normally buy boots and/or hiking shoes. Luckily ...
Some more things to do for Eric (When I get a chance...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Working with Eric this evening has pointed out a few more things that I'll need to work on to make it feel comfortable:
- single-instance operation -- i.e. when I select a .py file and choose "edit" in konqueror I should have the file loaded in the current instance, not starting up another instance
- drag-and-drop -- ...
My first ebuild (In glorious black-and-white...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Turns out that 99.99% of the work of doing ebuilds for Python packages is done for you. You just need to tell the script what the name, description, filename, and download URL of the package are. For SourceForge projects (almost all of mine) there's even built-in support for downloading from the SourceForge mirror sites.
For ...
Former gf graduates (With "high distinction")
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Congratulations out to Natasha, who graduated from U of T English Literature this afternoon, welcome to the wonderful world of the baccalaureate!
Fascinating article on planning Burning Man (Urban planning for utopias...)
Written by
on
in
Design Theory.
This SFGate article is a rather interesting look at how the people who organise Burning Man go about protecting and supporting those who attend. Worth a look for all those interested in the philosophy of cities.
Fascinating article on planning Burning Man (Urban planning for utopias...)
Written by
on
in
Design Theory.
This SFGate article is a rather interesting look at how the people who organise Burning Man go about protecting and supporting those who attend. Worth a look for all those interested in the philosophy of cities.
Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Most of the day was spent on graphics :) . Basically on planning out and experimenting with how to create an overview graphic to show the entire cable-modem plant in a compact and efficient-to-create format. Planning to use SVG output with simple substitutions into string templates to keep the overhead down. The client machines are ...
Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Most of the day was spent on graphics :) . Basically on planning out and experimenting with how to create an overview graphic to show the entire cable-modem plant in a compact and efficient-to-create format. Planning to use SVG output with simple substitutions into string templates to keep the overhead down. The client machines are ...
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.