Category archives: Knight Errant

Spent the whole day setting up our new development server (save for about 1/2 hour on billable work). I've got all of the secondary services set up, I'm just working on getting the legacy billing system built and set up now. Lot of dependencies in the tree, including multiple local-only data-types, a weird macro-expansion tool ...

I've switched to using the new cell phone as my alarm clock. It's with me, has a battery, and doesn't risk having the computer blast Rose out of bed in the morning if I'm not there to catch it. It worked fine, I woke up at 08:00, crossed the room, opened it up, pressed a ...

Linux Caffe's power was out when I got there this morning, so after a quick stop to pick up a cell phone for the business I came home, intending to just sit down and work. Lying down on the floor was solely done to say hello to little Caillou (the puppy), but I wound up ...

As some of you may recall, GNUCash went a bit nuts a few weeks ago and stopped being able to calculate overall totals or produce printable invoices. Last week's invoice was long enough that I just didn't want to hand-produce it, so I decided to try the 2.0.0 release (marked unstable (~amd64) on Gentoo).

There ...

One of these days I need to figure out a better name for the new billing system. At the moment I'm calling it "Better Billing" because it's intention is to be better than the legacy system we're using, but that name is already occupied by other billing systems. Just something to keep in the back ...

I'm planning to spend tomorrow on the long-term Open Source project for a general ISP billing system. So tonight I reviewed the code and tried to get some refactoring done. Basically I split out the various sub-schemas into separate modules so that it's easier to follow which pieces are logically connected.

But now TurboGears doesn't ...

Today marks the first day where my expenses for each day of work are greater than the income that I personally produce during that day. From this point I have to always get work from my subcontractors sufficient to pay part of their fees. I'm not particularly worried about that, it's just something that hit ...

We were having a debate this evening on the issue of outsourcing to "developing" countries, particularly discussing a case where apparently a business aquaintance has hired a 4-person programming team for $1000/month. The question is, is this going to be a good deal for the money?

My take on it is this; in a global ...

Training our new (sub)contractor on the (VoIP) billing system today by working on the new invoice-printing code. I'd intended it to be a short day, 7 hours and lots of time to digest, but somehow we seemed to zone out for the last 3 hours or so and only came to when Seneca mentioned that ...

I need to buy a printer for the company. I'm guessing the invoices would have printed if I'd had a local printer instead of printing via SMB and CUPS to Rose's printer (it seems that only the Windows version of Adobe's PDF viewer and the Windows printer had problems with the PDFs that GNUCash was ...