RhonabwyRandom blathering the bits that amuse and amaze me and tidbits from my programming on MacOS X.Switching blog engines- February 9, 2006 It's come to that time. I'm ready to switch blog engines. This is the last post on Movable Type, and now it is off to WordPress... If you get this via a feed, please come to the site at http:www.rhonabwy.comwp and switch up your subscription. I'll leave this active for a few days, but ultimately I'll clip it out. The front page of this blog, in fact, is already set to redirect.http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002835 grumpy- February 7, 2006 It was a beautiful day outside today, and I'm getting really freakin' grumpy tonight. First I spent 30 minutes driving around Capitol Hill, looking for a place to park so that Karen and I could get a bite and chat for the 30 minutes or so until her class started. I wasn't willing to pay $7 for what would be 30 minutes of parking. I ended up just driving around looking for someplace to land while Karen just got nervous about the traffic. Somehow, my frustration just added to a negative cycle...http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002834 Things that make you go "huh"- February 6, 2006 Well, it seems that my random "Shut up about the damn squares" paid off. That superbowl pool (first one I ever entered) seems to have made me a few dollars. I thought at first that they were all pulling my leg, but lo and behold - I appear to have nailed the final score. Got half the pool. Guess I'll have a nice lunch today.http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002833 Django and darwinports- February 6, 2006 I was pounding away at the basics of Django tonight, and got myself terribly confused when I ran into a new error when attempting to set up the basic django databases (using django-admin.py init). It had worked previously, but tonight I received the error: Error: The database couldn't be initialized. You can only execute one statement at a time. WTF I thought at first that maybe it was because I was using the raw development branch of Django. After bothering the folks on the irc channel...http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002832 The Sun! (and other sunday notions)- February 5, 2006 Woke up this morning to a sunny day. That's damned impressed compared to what we've been having here in Seattle for the past month. I had become used to significantly more "sun breaks" during the cloudy times than we received over the past 6 weeks - so the sun is a really welcome respite. And since it's sunny, and the windstorm from yesterday died down in the evening, things are reasonably dry. Not my basement, of course, but the ground outside is at least not a mud swamp under grass waiting...http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002831 windstorm- February 4, 2006 The wind has been howlin'! We've been having 30MPH winds, gusting up to 75MPH (!) in some places. Its causing enough havoc around the house that I'm sure it is going to be a delight all over Seattle. Oversaturated ground water, higher than normal tide - and now a lovely windstorm. So far we've picked up the bird feeder (chain broke) and chased two pots back from our front verge (they had been on the porch). Every window on our house is rain spattered, and it seems like a little vortex is...http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002830 Twisted- February 4, 2006 I think something maybe snapped inside my head. Somewhere deep down, a "cthunk" or something. Nothing terribly obvious to anyone outside... because I was reading some documentation on Twisted, and it suddenly all made perfect sense. I'm not sure why these things happen this way, but for some reason it just clicked and I was thinking "Yeah... so why did I think this was difficult earlier" Odd how that happens.http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002829 Ubuntu- February 3, 2006 I've been doing more with VMWare lately, and in the midst of generating (and breaking) various Microsoft win32 images, I snagged a copy of the Ubuntu image and started playing with it. The whole VMWare Player free application has made it really accessible, and I can't wait to see a VMWare application running on the intel Macs... While I think desktop linux still has a way to go, I've got to admit that Ubuntu's distro is about the best I've seen so far. I fiddled around with the GUI update...http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002828 I'm with Wolf...- February 2, 2006 Ah, good lord Microsoft! - I'm with Wolf here - WTF! Stop hurting the UI. You can do better than this. Shoot - Wolf's right on the money, you're making Metal look good. And THAT is hard!http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_02.html#002827 Amazing profiling and tracing tool... Shark- February 1, 2006 Its been a while, but I still remember scanning the output of strace (and later ktrace) from unix machines, looking for that hint of what went "boom" or was causing significant unhappiness with the machines. So when I read the recent article from Apple Optimizing your Application with System Trace in Shark 4, I was like "What They do that in Shark too!" Yep. If you're a unix hacker, MacOS is the system to get. The development tools are good, but frankly the most amazing development benefits..http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_01.html#002826 |