Author archives: Mike
Garn this is complex (Refactoring isn't going well)
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The problem being that, in this refactoring, the entire operating mechanism is being replaced with a new one. Instead of scanning a CMTS/Plant, it now scans a single modem or a sub-set of all modems (or that's the idea, in point of fact I'm still stuck where I can process individual modems, but they are ...
females aren't fickle; they just change their mind (It's-from-the-CBC-so-it-must-be-true...)
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Interesting article this evening. Looking at the how the mating preferences of bower birds change as the females age. Apparently flashy displays are more likely to impress the younger females, while older females are looking for energy and skill in a mating dance. Weirder yet, the young females are said to be afraid of the ...
Continuing to simplify (And the party-count rises)
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This evening I charge back into revising the core engine for Cinemon, particularly breaking out the processing of individual modems into a stand-alone operations that can be interspersed with the actual querying of the network.
Count for the party so far is 12 people with 4 of those tentative and 2 definite, but late. Still ...
My that Joey's a useful chap (Perl at minimum...)
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So, I have these things in my mind that I should be learning:
- Haskell/OCaml/Functional Programming
- Ruby/PERL/Messy Programming
Mass simplification (Compressing complexity)
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Have to head to a Unix Unanimous meeting this evening. Ah, pure geekiness, that homepage so looks like it was created in Vi. Kind of an inopportune moment. I 'm working on stripping down a set of 4 interlocking objects into 2. These are the core functionality of the scanning engine, which was originally designed ...
PyTable and PyTableDA revs (Releasing all the changes over the last month or so)
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No really huge changes for these versions. I've basically just been including minor fixes as they come up. Surprising number of downloads for something that never gets advertised and is an alpha-level core-code library. Anyway, want to use released versions on the project server, so there we go.
Mmm spam sans spam
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Sure, I hate spam as much as anyone. I have ~1400 spams/week if Mozilla is to be trusted, with 3 or 4 getting through every day (some days as many as 20 or 30 get through when a new spamming mechanism shows up). Today I got one, however, that was just a set of joke ...
I'm Mikey the Zope I am (Mikey the Zope I am, I am)
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Lots of Zoping today, mostly prodding the app to see when and how it breaks down under heavy load. So far I've isolated and eliminated one of the major failure cases (ConflictErrors on the main application entry point).
A day spent with Zope (Is a day you never get back...)
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Somehow managed to miss blogging for an entire day there; oops. Spent the whole day with the wonder that is Zope, first on the PyTableDA, tracking down a security-system complaint, fixing an icon, and repairing a form.
Then switched to stress-testing... or more precisely, setting up something so I can reproduce the annoying 4 or ...
Rested, fed, and ready to go (Though honestly I could go to sleep right now)
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My eyes are telling me that they'd be just as happy if I just went to sleep and woke up tomorrow some time. I don't seem to be spending enough time away from the computer for them to actually get back to normal/pain-less.
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.