J5’s Blog

January 24, 2005

Too much snow, skiing canceled!

Filed under: Uncategorized — J5 @ 1:42 am

Because of the blizzard the SkiMarket bus was canceled so Brian, Kristian and I decided to try to make it to Mount Snow on our own. I woke up at 4:30 and was all ready to go. Turned out Brian took a few laps around his block and concluded that even in his all wheel drive vehical there was no way we were going to get out of town. I went back to sleep and loafed around all day after I woke up. I always hate when events conspire to ruin well layed plans. It all reminds me why I want to move into Cambridge. At least that way I can walk to a friends house and spend downtime like this doing something interesting.

A shot of snow gathering up on my balcony

Blizzard’s post last night reminded me that I should have some provisions just in case I got snowed in so I went across the street to the local 24 and picked up some beef jerky, two microwave meals, a gallon of water and some bread to make PB&J with. Mmmm, PB&J will get me through any crisis. I ate all six sandwiches I had made for the ski trip.

A shot of my car

Seems like I lucked out with my car as it was right up against the parking structure it looks like not much snow got on it so hopefully tomorrow morning I will be able to get it out to go to work. Some peoples cars got completely burried in my partking lot. Here is a closeup of my car.

A close up shot of my car

Get on D-BUS

My article came out in the Red Hat Magazine along with articles about HAL and NetworkManager. They all complemented each other nicely. Sorry Robert about the title clash but it was a title we had been kicking around for awhile and I only found out about your article after I submitted my final which was a couple of days before the issue went live.

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January 12, 2005

GnomeBlog

Filed under: Gnome, Linux — J5 @ 1:15 pm

I finally got GnomeBlog working. Committied a change to CVS which makes sure the poster object is initialized when we call _showPrefDialog(). The fustration of a dynamic language is that these checks are only done during runtime and only when that piece of code has been run. Since this code block only gets run once when a person ran GnomeBlog for the first time most developers would not catch it. I was lucky enough to have reinstalled my laptop awhile back and not installed GnomeBlog since so I caught it. Python really needs to be able to do static checks. I know there are tools that do this but this should be a feature of Python. Anyway pygtkspell has moved to gnome-python-extras. You can install it and GnomeBlog will see it and use it when you restart GnomeBlog.

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January 7, 2005

Static Typing for all

Filed under: Linux, Redhat — J5 @ 4:01 pm

Static typing for python has been discussed a bit around Red Hat as something that would make developing larger scaled projects in Python a dream. Well today I ran across these blogs from Guido van Rossum:

The simple writeup
Optional Static Typing — Stop the Flames!

The more indepth writeups
Adding Optional Static Typing to Python
Adding Optional Static Typing to Python — Part II

While this doesn’t mean we will get static typing anytime soon, since Guido is pushing it has a good chance of getting into the language.


J5

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