So I post using the script, without ever looking at Advogato and see people already discussion reStructuredText. Crazy. Well, not that crazy since this is where I first heard of ReST. Thanks to that forgotten poster for pointing it out to me - I love it.
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Sometimes you find something that really excites you, something that you can feel will make things better, faster, easier for you. Here is where I keep singing the praises of reStructuredText.
The format is so natural for me - almost exactly how I have been writing text files since day one. I haven't learned it all yet, but picking it up has been painless so far - reminds me of running into Python way back when. It just felt right.
Anyways, that's all for now. I've got some stuff to install, a box to fix, hardware to unpack, a shelf to build... God, what I am doing here?
Fsshhhwp.
Last effort, I promise. Advo is not for debugging. Advo is not for debugging...
I've become quite adept at shell scripting in the last year or so. They've moved away from the handcuffed style that batch files had beaten me into and into full-fledged programs. Whereas I used to reach for Python to do the simple things, now I can drop-kick a shell script to do the same thing without comprimise.
Anyways, the post2advo script will go up at gurno.com later today, if I get a chance. It's a combo shell and python script - shell to tie the programs together and python to do some of the file input/output.
See ya on the blip side
I don't know why I thought that the first try would work. I blindly assumed that the extra XML/HTML stuff would just fly away like pixie dust.
Didn't happen.
Anyways, I've cobbled a bunch of scripts together so that I just just fire off a post from the commandline, formatted through reST and advodiary and end up here.
Saw a cool diskless client at the last LUG meeting. I would love something like that - my only wish is that it does 1280x1024 now that I have my spiffy new monitor. You just can't go back from this sort of real estate.
Have a good weekend everybody.
This first post is just a test of tying together reStructured text and advodiary. Isn't Python wonderful?
I did my first release of ezgallery, along with a JUMBLE solver and a WordScrimmage solver. Neither of which are really that interesting, but I had to mention them.
The LUG is chugging along. The mailing list has been more active as of late and a few people have some interesting project going. December is always the "fun" month - I think that I'll run Jeopardy again, with a qualifying quiz for fun. Last year we gave out a MSDN Developer magazine for the person with the lowest score. Good times, good times.
Okay, enough writing - I'd better see if this works.
Adam
Note: I cleaned this up by hand after the XML stuff blorped to the page. Oops.
Ran rend through valgrind and came out with a clean, non-leaky slate. I had suspected as much, seeing as how I had been running in on my Zaurus for about a week or so with no problems, but it's nice to have someone(thing) else tell you what you want to hear.
Typeset someone else's book in LaTeX to learn how it works. I've always believed in trial by fire and I think that it came out well. 140 or so pages and it's almost done. This has inspired me to start on the two books that I've wanted to do: both about X - one as user and one as programmer, both aimed at the complete novice. I've started the X programmer one and have about 1.5 chapters of 5 or so planned done.
Looked into adding PNG support to CTWM, but ran into a few problems. The newly added JPEG support is pretty clean for a while and then it enters code that might as well be marked /* Here be dragons */. I need to contact the guy and see if he'll update the code to include a few comments. With all the bit shifting taking place, I'm a little dubious about it's portability, but the list has been deathly quiet recently.
The LUG meeting tonight was cancelled, only to find out that someone new had shown up and tried to join. Murphy's Law strikes again: The first time we cancel a meeting in our 2.5 year history and we leave a New Member out in the cold. Doh!
Consumed a few cheapies tonight and tried to put a computer desk together. Complete failure. Damn. Will have to take many, many pieces apart and suffer the righteous indignation of a wife who thought that drinking and building don't mix.
They don't.
Anyways, - ordered the last little bit that I'm gonna need for my mini-itx box. Never thought that I would be considering round IDE cables (had considered them the worst sort of chrome) but need to save the space, as I'm building it inside a 6"x7"x7" box.
See ya
I'd just like to take a moment to give a hearty "Thank You" to all you Free Software developers out there. The whole Free Software Movement has really changed me - the people I've met, the code, the ideas. Keep up the good work.
Stuff
Packaged up Glows on a lark after a guy at work liked it. (Screen shot) The strange thing is that the screen shots that I have imply that the balls are clipped a little, while the naked eye says otherwise. *shrug*
LUG Ideas
- CodeFest - Drawing from the InstallFest idea, I think think that I'm going to try and organize my LUG into taking 6-8 hours some Saturday morning/afternoon and doing a "Code Fest". A pre-selected program (planned ahead of time with help from the developers of the same) will be worked upon by everyone in the LUG. Those that can code will work on coding certain assignments while those that cannot will work on improving/creating documentation. I think that it would be a nice boost for a project to get a lump chunk of work done by people and would serve as a learning experience for all of us. Must think more about this one.
- Parades! - During the summertime there are literally dozens of local parades just begging for groups to join. I think that the LUG can march and give out either free CDs (tres expensive) or coupons for Knoppix CDs that can be redeemed later at ... (Public Library?)
I've always written debugging stuff into my C code in the following way:dprintf (char *, ...) { #ifdef DEBUG [stuff] #endif /* DEBUG */ }and I just assumed that the compiler would see that it's a NOP when not compiled with -DDEBUG and do the appropriate optimizations.
I got into a rather pointless argument the other day with someone over whether or not all calls to this would be removed or if the compiled program would still visit here and waste a few instructions coming here and going back. Now that he has me thinking about it, I should probably investigate...
Zaurus
Been compiling many things for the Z recently, mostly just bringing curses console apps over. My Zaurus pages... Many, many, many thanks to the handhelds.org guys for use of their Public Development Clusters.
Life
Need a haircut.
Holy crap - one long freakin' day.
Up at 6:45 with my little one and accomplished probably a dozen rl things today, from working on the lawn to about 6 loads of clothes. So tired.
And I finally managed to create an ipk for hnb for the Zaurus. It's located on Zaurus software download page. I had to make a few changes to the rc file to fit the small Zaurus screen and I had to change the hnb code itself so that it knew about the Z's penchant for putting data and config files in strange places. Have a look at a screenshot of it running...
I'll have to contact the author tomorrow and let him know what I did...
Peace and prosperity to us all.
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