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5/26/2001 05:33:00 PM |
So, here's one goal shattered... I don't think I'll have money to buy more h/w parts for the proxy server... just might have to wait until Christmas or something.. the work-related personal endevaor is actually going pretty well.. the python remote scripting engine.. hmm.. that I bet will happen one night when I just suddently feel like writing some JAVA code. |
5/18/2001 02:27:00 AM |
wow.. 3 posts in a row.. I guess I am in full-geek mode today.. ;) |
5/18/2001 02:23:00 AM |
Which OS I use is really not an important factor when it comes to doing development work for me.. But, I feel more "at home" under a UNIX environment since I've done development soley on a solaris box for the 4 years that I spent in college. I happen to have both win2k AND linux at work on each of my boxes ( I have 2 ) ... I need to program in C , python, C++ ( only when programming COM stuff ) , and some ECMAscripting for web-related work, and what really matters is that I have the tools I need. After I tweaked the registry on my win2k so that tab completion works under CMD.EXE and installed unix utils I feel right at home even under my win2K box. Oh! Oh! Plus, Xemacs for windows has never been more solid in my opinion... There's also the UWIN package from ATT lab. It seems to have a lot more apps and shells that come with it.. it even has gmake which I've used exclusively while I was at school. I might check this out some time... |
5/18/2001 01:55:00 AM |
It seems like the majority of the blogger community uses blogvoices and , to a much lesser degree, dotcomments to add interactivity to their blogs by way of allowing people to leave comments... I happen to have implemented my own ASP-based solution for this site ... I'm not sure if anybody cares enough for me to opensource this thing... =) lemme know if any of you do. ;) |
5/18/2001 01:39:00 AM |
I downloaded greymatter to give it a test drive for use at work ( no, not for my site ). It was written in PERL! urgh... a language I've been avoiding to learn... for whatever reason I may have had... ^^.. It turns out that I needed to add a feature to greymatter to make it work at work, so I got a short tutorial from a colleague of mine on PERL and went chugging ... after a few hours I managed to add the feature I wanted ( to be able to categorize entries and browse by categories, etc..). Noah, the author of greymatter, seems to have temporarily distanced himself from the project for personal reasons... he tells me that the enormous code base makes him a bit nauseous. ;) I think I can sympathize... if he decides to further pursue greymatter, he should really modularize it and make it a little more scalable... but, it looks like it serves the purpose quite well at the moment as a personal journal entry system on a small scale. For those who think blogger and greymatter are competing environments, I don't think I completely agree ... they are really two very different beasts with their own pros/cons... |
5/14/2001 09:51:00 PM |
If you've ever used "clean" under AFS, there's a good chance you're hooked. What it does is it collects all the
possible junk files in the file system and allows you to delete them all at once... so neat freaks who want
to keep their home directory void of well, at any rate... I tried to mimic the functionalities of clean with a little python script, so here is the end result... Yes, it's slower than the original C version, and it doesn't support all the command line arguments, but it works farely well... there are couple things I could do to speed it up and both of them are part of the "TODO" list. |
5/12/2001 11:06:00 PM |
okay.. it's that time of the year.. post-final-scheduling time. =) This is when I set all these lofty goals and then never get around to doing them all.. heh heh.. well, so on this side of my world here is my goal ( to be completed by the end of August )
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5/10/2001 11:21:00 PM |
some people have a career goals associated with their geekdom... well.. so I thought about it... ya know... along the lines of "hey slim, you got a career goal?? " and it occured to me that I really don't... like most geeks, I don't think I'd ever want to be a manager... nope. never. no thanx. I don't want to think hard about ways to improve the economy or take advantage.. I'll pass.. leave that to gazillion others who want to do that. I don't think I'd ever want to stop hacking, either... uhm.. nope.. don't think so. so I guess, after a little thinking, it became clear that I just hack cuz I like it.. I learn for the intellectual satisfaction, not for the sake of being able to I really don't mind not being able to bring in major dough, either... as long as I'm not starving and I can buy stuff I want one in a while ( even if it means waiting until Christmas, ya know... ) ... I'm just surprised that some people actually pay me to do stuff I like.. =) The moment I'm forced into a corporate environment with corporate laddar climbing bull shit I'll retire from the industry. Yeah, old man.. I'm just young and naive. ;) Yeah, poor man.. I just had dinner, and I got nothing to complain about. |
5/05/2001 08:06:00 PM |
If you encounter 2 schroedinbugs in 24 hours... does that mean you should retire from the world of programming ... or does it get more bewildering than this... =) |
5/02/2001 06:04:00 PM |
I have volunteered to help the localization of the SDL documentation in to Korean. For one it'll let me learn the ins & outs of SDL itself. Moreover, it'll force me to write an XML editor (since the SDL Doc project uses SGML) that I can enter Korean characters into.... Since I have an English OS, I rely on IME to do the trick for me, but much to my disapointment, there aren't any XML editors that uses the IME interface... If you know of one, please let me know... I might just chicken out and blame the lack of free time.... and just make like an HTML Application instead of a real app.. |
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