Name: John Levon
Member since: 2000-04-14 14:10:55
Last Login: 2009-06-16 21:33:33

Homepage: http://www.movementarian.org/

Notes:
See the project descriptions below, and my homepage, for a description of what open source stuff I'm involved in.

movement @ irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net
leader@movementarian.org.

Projects

• Contributor on QtArchitect
• Lead Developer on Figurine
• Lead Developer on OProfile
• Contributor on Spamfilter
• Lead Developer on functrace
• Developer on AikSaurus
• Contributor on man-pages
• Helper on Mozilla
• Contributor on patchutils
• Contributor on Doxygen
• Developer on kernelnewbies
• Contributor on Linux
• Lead Developer on LyX
• Developer on OpenSolaris
• Developer on Xen VMM

Recent blog entries by movement

4 Jun 2009 »

Kernel solipsism

Thomas Gleixner:

Exactly that's the point. Adding dom0 makes life easier for a group of users who decided to use Xen some time ago, but what Ingo wants is technical improvement of the kernel... The kernel policy always was and still is to accept only those features which have a technical benefit to the code base.

It boggles the mind that someone could get things so backwards. The kernel exists to provide services to the outside world, not the other way around. By all means criticise the details of the Xen dom0 code, but this argument makes zero sense. How precisely did x86_64 support provide a technical benefit to the code base?

Syndicated 2009-06-04 12:11:00 (Updated 2009-06-04 12:18:44) from John Levon

18 May 2009 »

BNP

Charlie Brooker on the BNP party political broadcast:

Nick Griffin's first line is "Don't turn it off!", which in terms of opening gambits is about as enticing as hearing someone shout "Try not to be sick!" immediately prior to intercourse.

Syndicated 2009-05-18 12:24:00 (Updated 2009-05-18 12:25:35) from John Levon

26 Mar 2009 (updated 26 Mar 2009 at 04:08 UTC) »

Outputting XML in standard Python

Is it really this ugly? I expected something like this:

doc = xmldoc()
doc.start('foo', { 'id': 'blah' })
doc.start('sub')
doc.text('subtext')
doc.close('sub')
doc.close('foo')
print doc

and I thought I had it in SimpleXMLWriter. However, I have to jump hoops to get it to output to a string, and it doesn't have any pretty-print. I tried using ElementTree, but that also doesn't pretty print! libxml2 is horribly low-level. lxml seems to do pretty printing, but it's still just as ugly as the best option I've found so far, xml.dom.minidom:

from xml.dom.minidom import Document
foo = doc.createElement('foo')
foo.setAttribute('id', 'blah')
doc.appendChild(foo)
sub = doc.createElement('sub')
sub.appendChild(doc.createTextNode('subtext'))
foo.appendChild(sub)

Yuck! If I'm building up a document, I almost always want to append directly at the last point: why do I have to keep track of all these elements by hand? I presume I'm missing some small standard helper module, but #python didn't know about it. Anyone?

Syndicated 2009-03-26 02:43:00 (Updated 2009-03-26 03:20:31) from John Levon

22 Mar 2009 »

Scoble sets a new record

I really hate the word “friend.” It has no meaning anymore. No one can define what a friend is. Believe me, I’ve asked dozens of people to define it for me. My wife is my most “true” friend, for instance but if you trust her with picking a great wine (she doesn’t drink much) or picking a great sushi restaurant (she hates the stuff) you’ll be very disappointed. You’d be better off asking @garyvee about the wine even though you’ve never met him and he probably wouldn’t be listed among your “true” friends.

- Scoble

Might I gently suggest friendship isn't about wine recommendations?

Syndicated 2009-03-22 22:55:00 (Updated 2009-03-22 22:58:17) from John Levon

16 Mar 2009 (updated 16 Mar 2009 at 22:10 UTC) »

Sheesh

Apparently applications should be prepared to lose 60 minutes of data to work around the file system now.

Of course the notion that application should have explicit load/save operations is a nonsense already. Now we should "fix" one of the few places that never had this (ever seen a browser where you have to save your bookmarks explicitly when you quit?) to expose this implementation detail in a data-losing way again.

Syndicated 2009-03-16 20:31:00 (Updated 2009-03-16 21:26:42) from John Levon

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