Category archives: Snaking
Discussions of programming, particularly of programming Python
False positives with Bayesian filter in Mozilla! (Following Murphy's law, of course)
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This afternoon I got a call from Jeff, who I'm working with to offer a Python/Zope/Plone training seminar. He was just calling to confirm that I was okay with the rescheduling of the conference call from Friday to today. It was the first I'd heard of the conference call. I didn't have Jeff's email in ...
Ploning alone (It's not half as complex as I was expecting)
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Plone really is a fairly thin (but broad) layer on top of Zope machinery, with Archetypes seeming to be a fairly close analogue to my own BasicProperty project (in the emphasis on "Attributes", particularly). I spent the evening plumbing through the APIs (there's a lot in there) then settled down to read through the documentation.
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 ...
Continuing to simplify (And the party-count rises)
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Vindaloo.
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 ...
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.