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[06:21] < vmlemon_> Hi |
[06:22] < j_baker> hello |
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[06:57] < vmlemon_> kamaeliabot: dance |
[06:57] Reply: does the macarena |
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[06:58] < Lawouach_> morning all |
[06:58] < vmlemon_> Hi Lawouach |
[06:59] < Lawouach_> hi vmlemon_ |
[07:46] < Lawouach_> http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2008/05/required-reading-ultra-large-systems.html < -- beyond the divmod propaganda this is an interesting resource |
[07:48] < MS-> Appears to be content free IMO. I presume you mean the links? |
[07:49] < MS-> After all, it doesn't even define what they mean by ultra large systems, and just leaves that to the reader to infer |
[07:51] < Lawouach_> Yes. |
[07:52] < Lawouach_> The blog post is pretty empty but the links are interesting |
[07:53] < MS-> This is interesting: http://blog.isotoma.com/2008/05/some_thoughts_on_concurrency.html |
[07:53] < MS-> secondary knock off link |
[07:53] < MS-> However doesn't tell me anything I don't already know |
[07:53] < MS-> However it's conclusion is |
[07:53] < MS-> "use erlang" |
[07:53] < Lawouach_> well it's the koolaid these days |
[07:53] < MS-> Which is bizarre, since it assumes everyone *can* use erlang |
[07:54] < Lawouach_> I think what it means is apply Erlang's principles of "let it fail". |
[07:54] < Lawouach_> Well that's the way I approach those "use erlang" posts |
[07:55] < Lawouach_> Erlang as a language is not developer friendly and oddly enough nobody takes that into account |
[07:55] < Lawouach_> But I enjoy many ideas behind Erlang |
[07:56] < MS-> Indeed - the non-developer friend thing is the bit that concerns me. |
[07:56] < MS-> That said, kamaelia's had a convergent evolution, but from the imperative rather than functional side of things |
[07:57] < MS-> If there's something missing that would make sense, it should get cherry picked at some point. |
[07:57] < MS-> (much like the STM code) |
[07:57] < Lawouach_> Indeed |
[07:58] < Lawouach_> I think that's why I like language independant message technology like XMPP or AMQP |
[07:58] < MS-> Yep - makes a lot of sense |
[07:58] < MS-> The odd thing is the number of people who haven't made the cross-link to mashups |
[07:58] < Lawouach_> The debate around Erlang is so noisy these days that it's quite hard to truly understand its merits and drawbacks. |
[07:59] < MS-> My guess is that the best way to view Erlang is the same way to view Smalltalk of the late 70s |
[07:59] < MS-> Smalltalk wasn't the first OO language after all (Simula 67 had that distinction 10 years before) |
[08:00] < MS-> and Erlang isn't the first concurrent language (Occam probably holds that honour 20 years ago) |
[08:00] < Lawouach_> Well that's the reason I agree with you when you say one should use Erlang only when it fits the job description. Mashing up languages is much harder than technologies like XMPP |
[08:00] < MS-> But they're popularising an approach |
[08:00] < Lawouach_> True |
[08:01] < MS-> The problem for me is that language choice has to take context into account, and part of that is "who are we going to get maintaining the code". |
[08:01] < MS-> And it's a very big part of it |
[08:02] < MS-> The amusing part of this, is alot of the descriptions of functionality either match what kamaelia does today, or things I would like it to do, and would be a natural fit for it to do |
[08:04] < MS-> anyhow, I should be travelling to the office rather than chatting/reading. biab :) |
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[08:10] < mhrd> auto doc generation has identified a missing colon (syntax error) in Parsing: Kamaelia.Internet.UDP line 243 ... I'll fix trunk directly |
[08:22] < Lawouach_> so mhrd, that is your super power! |
[08:22] < Lawouach_> man I'm jealous. |
[08:22] < mhrd> ? |
[08:22] *** mhrd confused |
[08:23] < Lawouach_> The man who can fix trunk repositories directly :) |
[08:23] < mhrd> aaah. well, not quite directly. you know what I mean :) |
[08:23] < Lawouach_> heehee :) |
[08:23] < Lawouach_> Don't be shy |
[08:24] *** mhrd still waiting for "svn update" to complete following last night's quite significant rejig of /branches |
[08:24] < Lawouach_> And considering how fast sourceforge... you might wait quite a while |
[08:25] < mhrd> *sometimes* its due to rubbishy proxies at our end |
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[08:25] < Lawouach_> that too. I know the feeling |
[08:29] < mhrd> curious, it didn't fail in UDP, which did it fail in then |
[08:30] < mhrd> ah, tcpclient |
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[08:51] < Chong-> MS-: just leave a message, I maybe a little late for our meeting, but I should be able to come around 12:30. |
[08:52] < Chong-> In addition, I have checked in the newer codes including relation file parser and pink/ blue rendering. |
[08:53] < Chong-> Please check them when you get time. See you later. |
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[09:39] < Lawouach_> http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/05/19/37819 |
[09:39] < Lawouach_> >>> Like Armstrong, I cannot think of another system that works quite this way. |
[09:39] < Lawouach_> I can think of Kamaelia :) |
[09:40] < vmlemon_> The sequencer thing? |
[09:42] < Lawouach_> Not really |
[09:43] < Lawouach_> I should've been clearer. |
[09:43] < Lawouach_> I can think of Axon. |
[09:43] < Lawouach_> Axon linking mechanisms could reproduce what he describes in that article. |
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[10:00] < MS-> Morning |
[10:00] < MS-> alarm here |
[10:00] < MS-> arrgh |
[10:01] < Davbo> Morning MS- |
[10:05] < Davbo> off-topic but cool: http://bitnami.org/ |
[10:13] < Davbo> let me know when you're ready MS- |
[10:22] *** MS- back |
[10:22] < MS-> well that was exciting. Unfortunately we were let back in the building. |
[10:22] < MS-> Hopefully they'll do it again in about 2-3 hours |
[10:22] < Davbo> What happened? |
[10:23] < MS-> Fire alarm went off, lots of people left building, stood around for a little while, came back, came back in |
[10:23] < MS-> Dunno if a test or not |
[10:23] < Davbo> lol, I would hope so. Otherwise you're in a burning building |
[10:23] < Davbo> ;-) |
[10:24] < MS-> Indeed :) |
[10:25] < Davbo> You okay for me to ask a few questions? |
[10:26] < MS-> indeed. |
[10:26] < Davbo> I was looking at how you got the text displayer and text box talking |
[10:27] < Davbo> http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1205626569 |
[10:27] < Davbo> essentially that's piping output of text box into the displayer |
[10:27] < Davbo> i think |
[10:28] < Davbo> using this "pprocess.Exchange()" |
[10:28] < MS-> Underlying it, yes |
[10:28] < MS-> The syntactic sugar handles that for you. |
[10:28] < MS-> Actually what happens under the hood is this |
[10:28] < MS-> a pipe is created |
[10:29] < MS-> the process then forks |
[10:29] < MS-> the processes then exchange data across the pipe |
[10:29] < Davbo> hmm right |
[10:29] < MS-> The data is pickled before being sen |
[10:29] < MS-> t |
[10:29] < MS-> which means most objects, except generators can be sent across |
[10:29] < Davbo> So I shouldn't need to handle interactions at pprocess.Exchange() ? |
[10:29] < MS-> Correct |
[10:29] < Davbo> oh right |
[10:30] < MS-> The only two things you should need to worry about are using ProcessPipeline(...) and |
[10:30] < MS-> ProcessGraphline(...) |
[10:30] < Davbo> Oh I see! |
[10:31] < MS-> the only caveat to remember is NOT to activate the components before putting them in the list of things |
[10:31] < MS-> so no doing this |
[10:31] < Davbo> So I can make a Graphline to handle it then put that into the ProcessPipeline? |
[10:31] < MS-> X = MyComponent() |
[10:31] < MS-> X.activate() |
[10:31] < MS-> ProcessPipeline( ...,X,...) |
[10:31] < MS-> yes |
[10:32] < mhrd> MS- : which is a caveat that would apply to ordinary Pipelines and Graphlines too anyway (it might still work, but certainly isn't guaranteed to) |
[10:32] < MS-> mhrd: Yep |
[10:32] < Davbo> Oh I see, |
[10:32] < mhrd> ok, auto docs rebuild seems to have passed this time. |
[10:33] < MS-> It's intended to be a drop in replacement for Pipeline & Graphline when you decide "hmm, those things could be on different CPUs" |
[10:33] < Davbo> Yeah |
[10:34] < MS-> FWIW, I was expecting it to be harder |
[10:34] < Davbo> You think a Graphline is the best way to do it? |
[10:34] < MS-> i think the best way to do things initially would be to change magnadoodle to output events about what its doing |
[10:34] < MS-> and then also to change it such that it handles taking the same events as commands |
[10:34] < MS-> and then piping the output of one to the other |
[10:35] < MS-> (have it just one way initially) |
[10:35] < Davbo> Ah I see hmm |
[10:35] < MS-> (if you do it both ways initially you'll hit looping issues) |
[10:35] < MS-> The idea of course here to be getting used to the idea of how to can intercept messages and pass them around |
[10:35] < Davbo> Why did you expect it to be more difficult? |
[10:36] < MS-> because the networking case is more difficult mainly |
[10:36] < MS-> I hadn't expected the code to just work. The ProcessPipeline code does require changes though to the scheduler |
[10:36] < MS-> for example |
[10:36] < MS-> to enable zapping of the display |
[10:37] < MS-> zapping of the list of processes after forking |
[10:37] < MS-> rather |
[10:37] < MS-> list of active components rather |
[10:37] < mhrd> "zapping"? |
[10:37] < MS-> mhrd: It's caused by the scenario |
[10:38] < MS-> Pipeline( Textbox()... |
[10:38] < MS-> ProcessPipeline( |
[10:38] < MS-> Textdisplayer() |
[10:38] < MS-> ).run() |
[10:38] < MS-> If you don't have process pipeline zap the components in the scheduler |
[10:38] < MS-> the second window ends up with both a textbox and textdisplay |
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[10:38] < MS-> the the first with just a textbox |
[10:38] < MS-> rather than a textbox in one and textdisplayer in the other |
[10:38] < Davbo> Hmm, not sure i follow |
[10:39] < MS-> due to timing of .activate() calls |
[10:39] < MS-> Davbo: You don't need to be able to at this stage :) |
[10:39] < MS-> Just answering mhrd's question :) |
[10:39] < Davbo> alright |
[10:39] < MS-> The idea is that it should be transparent and "just work" |
[10:39] < MS-> :) |
[10:39] < Davbo> phone brb |
[10:41] *** MS- needs to nip of briefly too |
[10:41] < MS-> back in a sec |
[10:44] < Davbo> back |
[10:45] < Davbo> I was thinking of using a Backlane actually MS-, I thought that would make it easier to add more windows / was more intuitive |
[10:45] < Davbo> when changes happen on one window they publish to the backlane and others read from it |
[10:47] < mhrd> that approach works well for the whiteboard ... |
[10:48] < mhrd> which also does some additional stuff to make sure that anything that publishes and subscribes to the whiteboard doesn't receive stuff it sent out (the looping issue MS- mentions) |
[10:48] < Davbo> Ah |
[10:48] < mhrd> MS- : re. zapping - aaah yes, kinda helps I suspect :-) |
[10:50] < Davbo> door brb |
[10:53] < MS-> (back) |
[10:54] < MS-> Backplane is definitely a good idea, however initially I would do point to point. |
[10:54] *** mhrd agrees - step by step |
[10:55] < Davbo> what do you mean by getting it to output events MS-? |
[10:55] < MS-> eg |
[10:55] < MS-> if event.button == 3: |
[10:55] < MS-> self.oldpos = None |
[10:55] < MS-> self.drawBG() |
[10:55] < MS-> self.blitToSurface() |
[10:55] < MS-> would also be |
[10:56] < MS-> if event.button == 3: |
[10:56] < MS-> self.oldpos = None |
[10:56] < MS-> self.drawBG() |
[10:56] < MS-> self.blitToSurface() |
[10:56] < MS-> self.send("clear", "outbox") |
[10:56] < Davbo> ah thought so |
[10:56] < Davbo> so you kinda trick them to think a user event has happened on that MagnaDoodle |
[10:56] < MS-> pygame.draw.circle(self.display, (0,0,0), self.oldpos, rad, 0) |
[10:56] < MS-> self.send(["circle", (0,0,0), self.oldpos, rad] , "outbox") |
[10:57] < MS-> You'll rapidly find that you need to standardise the messages you're sending |
[10:57] < Davbo> uh-huh |
[10:57] < MS-> cf "clear" vs ["circle", (0,0,0), self.oldpos, rad] |
[10:57] < MS-> Essentially |
[10:57] < MS-> What you should end up doing is decoupling handing user events from painting the surface |
[10:58] < Davbo> Yeah I see what you mean |
[10:58] < MS-> Which will lead you down the starting point of the structure of the whiteboard |
[10:58] < Davbo> So a user event triggers something (say) onto a backlane then they read off that |
[10:58] < MS-> Later, yes |
[10:58] < Davbo> Yeah |
[10:58] < MS-> It's very easy to jump ahead :) |
[10:59] < Davbo> (it's more intuitive to think of the Backlane for me) |
[10:59] < Davbo> Yeah I can do that I think :) |
[10:59] < mhrd> Davbo: you can view these as natural steps to check bits work before plugging them into a backplane |
[10:59] < Davbo> Yeah |
[11:00] < Davbo> I can see how it could cause problems |
[11:00] < mhrd> and a little functionality/change ... test ... commit ... repeat :) |
[11:00] < MS-> it's important to remember that this is a learning exercise, rather than the main project. Learning how this can work :) |
[11:00] < Davbo> indeed :) |
[11:00] < MS-> Once you've got this though, it should be clear that you could replace the keypresses with messages from outside as well |
[11:01] < MS-> (eg currently doing circle & line from "c", "l", to be extended to also include from buttons you could click on |
[11:01] < Davbo> Yeah |
[11:02] < MS-> Or if you're willing to find something to train and code up, even from a speech recognition system |
[11:02] < Davbo> I can see how that would be pretty easy if you standardise what they actually write out |
[11:02] < MS-> Though I would suggest that's out of scope |
[11:02] < MS-> Yep |
[11:03] < MS-> My concrete suggestion - given you do have a basic multiwindow thing going |
[11:04] < MS-> would be to define 1 to be "window 1", the other to be "window 2" |
[11:04] < MS-> and have the drawing events on window 1 copied to window 2 (as per this discussion) for window 2 to be able to copy. |
[11:05] < MS-> That then gives you a basic control protocol. |
[11:05] < Davbo> Yeah |
[11:05] < mhrd> then you can start moving the two windows 'further apart' in some logical sense :) |
[11:05] < Davbo> right |
[11:05] < MS-> my suggestion isn't really quite that, it's more "OK, then add a third window" |
[11:06] < MS-> which has tools on it - initially just 3 buttons |
[11:06] < MS-> circle, line, clear |
[11:06] < Davbo> uh-huh. I was going to try that too :-) |
[11:06] < MS-> since you have that basic functionality, and that should then control window 1 |
[11:07] < MS-> which should of course also ripple over to window 2 |
[11:07] < MS-> in this scenario |
[11:07] < MS-> The next step, which should be harder |
[11:08] < MS-> is to figure out how to have the 3rd window - the control pallette - only control *one* of the windows |
[11:08] < MS-> And to stop events from window 1 being passed to window 2 |
[11:08] < Davbo> Hmm right |
[11:08] < MS-> At that point I'd add in changing colour |
[11:09] < MS-> The reason of course is at that point you have a very basic paint program with 2 independent windows, but a single common control |
[11:10] < Davbo> Yeah I can see some potential ways of doing that |
[11:10] < Davbo> Do you think it would be wise to start from scratch for my project or to start from this and extend it? |
[11:11] < MS-> I would continue to extend the code you already have for these learning exercises, but the overall goal was to be able to extend/modify the whiteboard IIRC |
[11:11] < MS-> So these things explore the problem space in a restricted/toy example first |
[11:11] < MS-> before moving over to the bigger/full system. |
[11:11] < MS-> That's my take anyway |
[11:12] < Davbo> Yeah |
[11:12] < Davbo> I think that's wise |
[11:12] < Davbo> I can move more to Whiteboards approach to it also, ie. like Matt said with the Backlane |
[11:12] < MS-> Defensive coding practices really. The key thing you get by doing this is something you can go back to and explore |
[11:12] < MS-> yep |
[11:14] < MS-> OK, summarising |
[11:14] < MS-> Make window 2 slave events from window 1 |
[11:14] < MS-> Then add a third window to control window 1 - circle, line, clear |
[11:15] < MS-> The break slaving of window 1 & 2, but keep events going from the third control window to window 1 & 2 |
[11:15] < MS-> Then change it such that events are only sent to one or the other |
[11:15] < MS-> Then add in colour |
[11:16] < Davbo> Yeah |
[11:16] < MS-> (eg just one extra colour is fine - red & blue vs just black) |
[11:16] < Davbo> Sounds good to me |
[11:16] < MS-> beyond that, I would suggested re-enabling communication between 1 & 2 and make it bidirectional & such that you can toggle it on/off |
[11:17] < Davbo> This alright to be what I'm working on while i have exams? - You happy with this progression? |
[11:17] < MS-> So that "the blue one can draw on window 1 and see it appear (in blue) in window 2" |
[11:17] < MS-> and vice versa |
[11:17] < MS-> After that, the next logical step is 3 windows, since that then naturally screams "backplane" |
[11:17] < MS-> :) |
[11:18] < Davbo> Yeah, I can see that :) |
[11:18] < MS-> That's probably /more/ than enough for the week though |
[11:18] < MS-> but definitely moves you down the route of understanding the issues the whiteboard deals with, and also the issues your project will need to deal with |
[11:18] < Davbo> Good |
[11:19] < MS-> When do you exams finish again? |
[11:19] < MS-> next friday ? |
[11:19] < MS-> Or week after? |
[11:19] < Davbo> 6/6 |
[11:19] < MS-> Week after, OK |
[11:19] < Davbo> Yeah week after |
[11:19] < MS-> I'll bear that in mind |
[11:20] < Davbo> I literally have nothing after that though |
[11:20] < Davbo> So should be full speed ahead :) |
[11:21] < MS-> Cool |
[11:22] < MS-> I think the stuff we've just covered may take more than a week since you're getting up to speed with things. For me/matt it'd be less than a day I guess, since we're used to the codebase. However, if things are quicker, we can re-evaluate. |
[11:23] < MS-> If they're longer, then I'm not too worried, but would like to think about tasks which make it easier to explore the whiteboard code |
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[11:23] < MS-> So that you're at least familiar with it so that you can hit the floor running with it |
[11:24] < MS-> (thinking ahead) |
[11:24] < Davbo> Alright, I think it might take longer than a week. Alot of Kamaelia is getting used to the tools which already exist and what's suitable to use where |
[11:24] < MS-> Yep |
[11:25] < MS-> I'm deliberately suggesting more than I would expect to fit in a week at this stage BTW |
[11:25] < MS-> largely because it makes forward planning easier next time |
[11:25] < MS-> Since your todo list on thursday will be clear, making review and planning next week simple :) |
[11:26] < Davbo> nah it's fine. I think we've laid out a good plan, now i can see where we're going with this |
[11:26] < MS-> me too |
[11:26] < MS-> my aim would also be that either before or immediately after your exams are done is that you'll be directing these "next steps"/"plans" |
[11:27] < MS-> But I do recognise at this stage you need gudiance due to not knowing what's inside things :) |
[11:27] < MS-> OK, do you have any more questions for me? |
[11:27] < Davbo> Humm nah I'm good now |
[11:28] < MS-> Excellent :-) |
[11:28] < Davbo> I'll go and post this Contributer Agreement |
[11:28] < MS-> Fantastic :) |
[11:28] < MS-> That's 2 I have now from this year |
[11:28] < Davbo> Thanks MS- :-) |
[11:28] < MS-> one from pablo (the one via BH did get here in the end) and one from chong |
[11:28] < MS-> you're welcome :) |
[11:30] *** MS- notes Chong must've forgotten about our meeting at 12 today |
[11:34] < orphans> MS-, Chong-> MS-: just leave a message, I maybe a little late for our meeting, but I should be able to come around 12:30. |
[11:34] < orphans> < Chong-> In addition, I have checked in the newer codes including relation file parser and pink/ blue rendering. |
[11:34] < orphans> < Chong-> Please check them when you get time. See you later. |
[11:34] < orphans> @9.30 ish |
[11:34] < MS-> Ah, I missed that |
[11:35] < MS-> orphans: Much appreciated :) |
[11:35] < orphans> sorry, forgot to ping you it |
[11:35] < orphans> np |
[11:35] < MS-> should've checked log |
[11:35] < MS-> OK, I *really* need to go get food since I have another meeting (not kamaelia) in 25 minutes |
[11:36] < orphans> you want me to tell Chong that you won't be around? |
[11:36] *** orphans is stuck here revising :) |
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[11:43] < Chong-> Hi MS- |
[11:45] < orphans> Chong: [12:35] < MS-> OK, I *really* need to go get food since I have another meeting (not kamaelia) in 25 minutes |
[11:46] *** mhrd wonders if we need to rull orphans functionality into kamaeliabot ;-) |
[11:46] < mhrd> s/rull/roll/ |
[11:46] < Chong-> orphans: I see. Thank you very much for your remind orphans. |
[11:46] < orphans> Chong-, np |
[11:46] < Chong-> and thanks for reminding MS- of my message :-) |
[11:47] < orphans> mhrd, but then what would I do to procrastinate? |
[11:47] < Chong-> hehe |
[11:49] < Davbo> back later |
[11:50] < Chong-> cya, Davbo. |
[12:11] < Lawouach_> back |
[12:11] < Lawouach_> did I miss anything? :) |
[12:28] < MS-> Yay, conf call over. I can come back to life :) |
[12:28] < MS-> Nice and sunny though |
[12:29] < Chong-> Hi MS-, sorry for being late |
[12:30] < MS-> Chong-: np |
[12:30] < Chong-> thanks :-) |
[12:30] < Chong-> Have you got opportunity to check my code? |
[12:30] < MS-> Just taking a look now |
[12:31] < Chong-> cool |
[12:31] *** MS- waits for an update to complete |
[12:32] < MS-> OK, RelationTopologyViewer.py runs |
[12:33] < Chong-> good |
[12:33] < MS-> OK, your parser is a single shot component? |
[12:35] < Chong-> I think no |
[12:35] < MS-> for node in nodes: |
[12:35] < MS-> self.send(node, "outbox") |
[12:35] < MS-> for link in links: |
[12:35] < MS-> self.send(link, "outbox") |
[12:35] < MS-> yield 1 |
[12:35] < MS-> yield 1 |
[12:35] < MS-> self.send(self.shutdown_mess,"signal") |
[12:35] < MS-> Kinda implies it is |
[12:35] < MS-> ie it couldn't be used interactively |
[12:36] < Davbo> back - posted the Contributor Agreement MS- |
[12:36] < MS-> (not an issue, more an observation) |
[12:36] < MS-> Davbo: ta |
[12:36] < MS-> OK,key thing is that works |
[12:36] < Chong-> yes if you mean that. |
[12:37] < Chong-> I copy it from your ERparsing :-) |
[12:37] < MS-> ./RelationColorTopologyViewer.py Files/RelationGender.re works as well |
[12:38] < MS-> Chong-: Yes, i noticed the similarity |
[12:38] < MS-> It's good to cite sources of data |
[12:38] < MS-> and code |
[12:38] < Chong-> I think I receive message one by one but send messages one shot. |
[12:38] < Chong-> I will :-) |
[12:38] < MS-> Blue links and pink links? |
[12:39] < MS-> What's the differentiation? |
[12:40] < Chong-> For example, dad is blue node, the link to him is pink; |
[12:40] < MS-> ./RelationColorTopologyViewer.py Files/RelationAttribute.re doesn't run yet. I'm guessing this is expected behaviour |
[12:40] < Chong-> mum is pink node, the link to her is blue; |
[12:40] < MS-> Do link colour is opposite to node colour |
[12:40] < Chong-> yes. |
[12:41] < MS-> k |
[12:41] < MS-> OK, what are your planned next steps? |
[12:41] < Chong-> Any suggestions to improve? |
[12:41] < MS-> i'd rather hear your next planned steps first :) |
[12:42] < Chong-> np |
[12:42] < Chong-> Next one should be able to use customable pictures |
[12:42] < MS-> as per Files/RelationAttribute.re ? |
[12:43] < Chong-> yes. |
[12:43] < Chong-> I think it probably needs to extend / modify TopologyViewer |
[12:43] < Chong-> Add one data field, such as |
[12:43] < MS-> If you think you need to do that, you'll have to make a branch for doing that |
[12:43] < Chong-> ADD NODE ID POS PARTICLE DATA |
[12:44] < Chong-> What do you think? |
[12:44] < MS-> I think you probably ought to investigate whether you can work withing the current system first |
[12:45] < Chong-> send the photo path or other information through DATA |
[12:45] < MS-> I suspect you make be able to see a different way of deal with it |
[12:45] < MS-> and then be able to decide if it make sense |
[12:46] < MS-> After all, you may be able to do something interesting with particle type |
[12:46] < Chong-> yes. it is hightly customale wtih particle type |
[12:46] < MS-> After all, at present it does this: |
[12:47] < MS-> if self.particleTypes.has_key(msg[5]): |
[12:47] < MS-> ptype = self.particleTypes[msg[5]] |
[12:47] < MS-> ... |
[12:47] < MS-> That may be reasonable to deal with differently |
[12:47] < MS-> After all if particle type could be defined as |
[12:48] < Chong-> yes, I have understood how it works. but I cannot figure out one way to send the path of photos to particle |
[12:48] < MS-> person(gender=female,picture=Files/Filename.png) |
[12:48] < MS-> That would work OK |
[12:48] < MS-> Since then yes, the topology visualiser code would need extending, but it would be a minor change |
[12:49] < MS-> However, I suspect that that is suboptimal |
[12:49] < MS-> since it causes problems for filenames with spaces in |
[12:49] < Chong-> yes |
[12:50] < MS-> I think my suggestion would be to try something that you can get to work, and then seek feedback as to whether it makes sense |
[12:50] < MS-> (on the list) |
[12:51] < MS-> But either way, yes, I think you'll need to modify the topology visualiser |
[12:51] < Chong-> cool |
[12:51] < MS-> I think my suggestion there though would be "add a new command" |
[12:51] < MS-> rather than "change the existing one" |
[12:51] < MS-> yes, base the new on on the old if you like, but make a change that leaves current behaviour intact. |
[12:52] < Chong-> got it. |
[12:52] < MS-> Since you'll be working on a branch, you won't be affecting anyone |
[12:52] < MS-> I would suggest calling it private_CL_Scratch |
[12:53] < MS-> since then when you're done, you can delete the branch if you like |
[12:53] < MS-> and reinstate if necessary another time |
[12:53] < Chong-> great. |
[12:54] < Chong-> one question, just now, do you suggest to embed the informaiton into the NODEID? |
[12:56] < MS-> I think, if you're creating your own branch, I think you should probably think about extending things as you indicate above |
[12:56] < MS-> rather than (to put it badly) abusing existing functionality |
[12:56] < MS-> After all, the nodeid is used when you want to add/delete things, make/break links |
[12:56] < MS-> It may also be worth considering this: |
[12:57] < MS-> if I already have a node, how do I update it? |
[12:57] < MS-> eg to change it's label |
[12:57] < MS-> Or in the case of an image, to change it's picture etc |
[12:58] < MS-> or even to the extent of changing the particle type completely |
[12:58] < Chong-> I see. |
[12:59] < MS-> That last one may actually have a real implication for some of the things you have planned |
[12:59] < MS-> given the hierarchical stuff |
[12:59] < MS-> Having the ability to support (even badly) changing the node type |
[12:59] < MS-> would open up interesting options. |
[13:00] < Chong-> yes. interesting. |
[13:00] < MS-> As a result, maybe thinking in terms of |
[13:00] < MS-> you may wish to think in terms of the ability to do things like "ADD ASSET" |
[13:00] < MS-> or perhaps allowing particle types to define extra commands |
[13:01] < MS-> To make this sort of thing easier to retrofit in future |
[13:02] < Chong-> yes. That would be cool. |
[13:02] < MS-> It'd perhaps make it easier to retarget in more interesting ways |
[13:03] < MS-> Beyond that, I think probably the next step after this would be to look at hierarchies. |
[13:03] < MS-> how you would expand a node to show it's sub-graph, and how you would shrink it again back down |
[13:04] < MS-> Pipeline( Pipeline( A, B) , Pipeline( C, D) ) - springs to mind as a basic thing there |
[13:04] < MS-> if you're able to update the node inplace, it'd probably make that easier to do |
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[13:05] < Chong-> yes. |
[13:05] < MS-> OK Chong- - if you have more questions, please do send them to the list :0 |
[13:05] < MS-> :-) |
[13:05] < MS-> Trun: hiya |
[13:05] < Trun> hi |
[13:06] < Chong-> :-) |
[13:06] *** Lawouach_ feels like sleeping |
[13:06] < MS-> Lawouach_: ditto :-) |
[13:06] < Lawouach_> well let's listen to Pulp then. Might wake me up :) |
[13:06] < MS-> heh |
[13:07] < Chong-> one question, can one kamaelia component accept inputs (the same inbox) from two components, say both FileAdaptor and ConsoleReader? |
[13:07] < MS-> yes |
[13:07] < Chong-> that's cool |
[13:07] < MS-> You cannot guarantee *any* ordering |
[13:07] < MS-> since it will be determined by the scheduler |
[13:08] < MS-> If I discover that people do start relying on ordering, I reserve the right to change the scheduler to import from random |
[13:08] < MS-> :-D |
[13:08] < Lawouach_> Note that it can't allow the opposite on the other hand. |
[13:08] < Chong-> hehe' |
[13:08] < MS-> indeed |
[13:09] < Lawouach_> You can't link one outbox to more than one inboxes |
[13:09] < Lawouach_> You may use specific components for tha |
[13:09] < Lawouach_> I commonly use Backplanes |
[13:09] < MS-> ditto |
[13:09] < MS-> makes debugging simpler too :) |
[13:09] < Lawouach_> Very handy to more loosely link components. Make the code a little harder to follow though. |
[13:09] < Lawouach_> Yes |
[13:09] < Lawouach_> But readability is less easy I find. |
[13:09] < Chong-> yes. |
[13:10] < MS-> Yes, they can drive down readability |
[13:10] < MS-> OK, Chong- you happy for now then? Plenty to move forward with? |
[13:11] < MS-> I'll be expecting you to be driving this forward from next week really |
[13:11] < MS-> just as an fyi :) |
[13:11] < Chong-> yes, You have solved a lot of questions for me and at the same time raised more questions for me :-) |
[13:11] < MS-> Cool |
[13:12] < MS-> Trun: OK, you ready ? |
[13:13] < Davbo> It's like a meeting relay-race |
[13:13] *** MS- has been wondering about the code you've produced and how to do it |
[13:13] < MS-> Davbo: Yeah, work can sometimes be like that. If you spread them out over a week, it becomes insane since you end up in one long meeting |
[13:13] < MS-> It's why I try to a) keep them short & focussed |
[13:14] < Chong-> just before Trun responses, I will ask another question :-) |
[13:14] < MS-> b) compress them into one part of the week |
[13:14] < Chong-> About the hierarchy one, will we still do it under pygame or under opengl? |
[13:14] < MS-> Chong-: Can you please put it on the list |
[13:14] < Chong-> np |
[13:14] < MS-> Trun: can you join #kamaelia-mentor please ? |
[13:15] < MS-> ie /join #kamaelia-mentor |
[13:15] < MS-> (whilst waiting, Chong- yes, for now everything in pygame - get used to doing everything in one place first, before shifting the rug under yourself) |
[13:16] < Chong-> np |
[13:16] < MS-> Incidentally these mentor time meetings aren't really meetings for meetings sake, it's time I'm specifically putting aside to ensue you've got undivided attention |
[13:30] < Davbo> Humm using grep could I go through some folders and look for files with no extensions and give them .mp3 ? |
[13:47] < Lawouach_> Davbo: ? |
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[13:50] < vmlemon_> Hi |
[13:56] < Davbo> Lawouach_? |
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[14:00] < Lawouach_> What were you saying before about grep and mp3? |
[14:00] < mhrd> davbo: find . ! -name "*.*" -type f -exec echo Found {} \; |
[14:01] < Lawouach_> < Davbo> Humm using grep could I go through some folders and look for files with no extensions and give them .mp3 ? |
[14:01] < Davbo> Oh I have a bunch of files with no extension which are actually MP3's wanted to just find and append their extension with a script |
[14:01] < Lawouach_> python -c "import glob;print glob.glob('*.mp3')" |
[14:02] < MS-> http://132.185.142.2/Kamaelia/ - the results of Pablo's KamPlanet code |
[14:02] < Lawouach_> to get them and you can easily change the name by extending that line |
[14:02] < Lawouach_> mhrd: nerd :) |
[14:02] < MS-> Currently breaks with Lawouach_'s blog/feed |
[14:02] *** vmlemon_ wonders where he can get a cheap 1GB RS-MMC card... |
[14:02] < Lawouach_> with the RSS feed? weird since it works with Planet Python |
[14:03] < mhrd> Lawouach_ : thanks :) |
[14:04] < MS-> Lawouach_: I think it's more due to assumptions in Trun's code rather than your feed |
[14:04] < Davbo> Thanks mhrd & Lawouach_ |
[14:04] < mhrd> vmlemon_ 7dayshop.com ? |
[14:04] < MS-> your feed is rather more ... rich .. that the others :) |
[14:04] < vmlemon_> Thanks, I'll look when I get home |
[14:04] < Lawouach_> hu hu |
[14:05] < Lawouach_> Trun: what library do you use to parse the feeds? |
[14:05] < MS-> Lawouach_: I'm certain the issue is with KamPlanet (BTW) |
[14:05] < Davbo> lol Lawouach_, poor mhrd ;-) |
[14:05] < MS-> (15:04:28) Trun: >>> parsed = feedparser.parse("http://www.defuze.org/feeds/index.rss2") |
[14:05] < MS-> (15:04:39) Trun: >>> print parsed.entries[0].keys() |
[14:05] < MS-> (15:04:43) Trun: ['license', 'slash_comments', 'wfw_comment', 'subtitle', 'author', 'links', 'tags', 'title', 'updated', 'comments', 'id', 'content', 'guidislink', 'title_detail', 'link', 'wfw_commentrss', 'author_detail', 'updated_parsed'] |
[14:06] < MS-> (15:05:55) Trun: no, but it's a KamPlanet problem |
[14:06] < MS-> (15:06:08) Trun: that feed does not provide summary, but it provides content |
[14:06] < MS-> (15:06:34) Trun: I should check for both, but up to date all what I had played with was with a blog at localhost and pablo.ordunya.com |
[14:06] < Davbo> Very cool stuff Trun |
[14:06] < Lawouach_> I see |
[14:07] < MS-> (15:07:20) Trun: there are still several things regarding encodings, characters, etc. that I'm not happy with and I have not tested with many blogs |
[14:07] < MS-> (15:07:50) Trun: but for the moment I wanted to focus in kamaelia itself |
[14:07] < MS-> Which makes sense :) |
[14:08] < MS-> Anyhow, as an exercise of building up something useful as a test case for testing, it makes sense |
[14:09] *** MS- moves discussion back onto here instead |
[14:09] < MS-> (moved off channel due to channel noise earlier :) ) |
[14:09] < Trun> I was reading, yeah, I was just playing around with kamaelia |
[14:10] < Trun> I'm sure there are lots of problems with KamPlanet and feeds :-) |
[14:10] < Trun> it currently does not even finish itself :-D |
[14:10] < MS-> Davbo: find|grep -v mp3$|while read filename; do mv $filename $filename.mp3; done |
[14:10] < Davbo> Hah, thanks MS- |
[14:11] < MS-> Actually that'll rename directories too |
[14:11] < MS-> find -type f|grep -v mp3$|while read filename; do mv $filename $filename.mp3; done |
[14:11] < MS-> is better |
[14:11] *** MS- thinks trun needs a better irc client than mibbit ... |
[14:13] < Trun> noh, I'm here, mibbit is working today :-D |
[14:13] < MS-> OK, I need to bring that meeting to a close |
[14:13] < MS-> sicne this is just too slow for me |
[14:13] < MS-> Can you forward me via email what you're planning on doing next, and hope to achieve in the next week |
[14:14] < Trun> ok |
[14:14] < MS-> I think you also need to start thinking about how testing applies in these situations |
[14:14] < MS-> KamPlanet's not a bad one |
[14:14] < MS-> but also need to think about systems involving services - eg the selector & PygameDisplay |
[14:15] < MS-> (in terms of very specific components) |
[14:15] < Trun> ok, I'll check them |
[14:15] < MS-> Also, there is /Code/Python/Kamaelia/Tests |
[14:15] < MS-> and also /Tests |
[14:15] < MS-> so it needs to take those into account as well |
[14:16] < MS-> The tests in the /Tests (the axon ones) are actually intended to be sufficient for producing documentation as well |
[14:16] < MS-> by using the docstring for tests in unittest in an imaginative way |
[14:16] < MS-> However, clearly there's issues of black box testing and also black box testing |
[14:17] < MS-> then for things like TCPClient & ConnectedSocketAdaptor |
[14:17] < MS-> the key things the tests ought to be able to check is that the socket library is being used correctly |
[14:17] < Trun> aham |
[14:17] < MS-> which implies a means of mocking socket and using those as exemplars |
[14:17] < MS-> i'll drop this by mail though |
[14:18] < MS-> I *do* think that KamPlanet is a good idea though |
[14:18] < MS-> since it has a variety of different styles it has to deal with |
[14:18] < MS-> and are all testworthy :) |
[14:18] < MS-> So I'd continue with getting that "complete" :) |
[14:18] < Trun> ok |
[14:19] < MS-> A few docs on it would be useful too - but I'm very inclined to keep that running |
[14:19] < MS-> and have it as a live datasource on the new site |
[14:19] < MS-> when the new site goes live |
[14:19] < MS-> :-) |
[14:19] < Trun> cool :-) |
[14:19] < Trun> I'll think about all this and send you an e-mail tonight with the TODO for the next week |
[14:20] < Trun> is that ok? |
[14:20] < MS-> Sounds good. |
[14:20] < MS-> I'd also extend it to be a general "todo in the next 3 weeks, with expectation of < these> being priority" |
[14:20] < MS-> since that's really what I'm encouraging people to do |
[14:21] < MS-> Also, since then it would provide a nice path into projects |
[14:21] < Trun> oh, ok |
[14:21] < MS-> Just a thought :) |
[14:22] < Trun> ok then :-) |
[14:22] *** Lawouach_ can hear Ben Stiller in Dodgeball saying "Do it!" |
[14:22] < Lawouach_> :D |
[14:23] *** vmlemon_ started using Remember The Milk last night, after signing up a while ago... |
[14:24] < Davbo> :) |
[14:24] < vmlemon_> I've probably used the WAP frontend more than the regular one, that said |
[14:26] < vmlemon_> A slight annoyance is when I add an item with a date like "Later this week", it seems to disappear until I look in the Inbox |
[14:28] < vmlemon_> Although it's probably a "feature" |
[14:30] < Davbo> Never used the WAP frontend actually |
[14:31] < vmlemon_> It's rather handy, though |
[14:32] < vmlemon_> (If I can remember to Remember The Milk at least once a day, that is ;)) |
[14:34] < Davbo> :) |
[14:34] < Davbo> That's the thing, as with anything like this. It's only good if you use it like every day |
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[15:03] *** MS- goes afk |
[15:04] < mhrd> wap.nationalrail.co.uk is lovely as is tflwap.gov.uk |
[15:08] < Lawouach_> vmlemon: http://www.defuze.org/archives/18-XMPP,-AtomPub-and-microblogging.html |
[15:08] < Lawouach_> That might interest you |
[15:08] < Lawouach_> That could interest j_baker too :) |
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[15:14] < Lawouach_> alright I have no clue which vmlemon_ I just talked to :) |
[15:16] < vmlemon_> Hah, I lost connectivity just then :| |
[15:17] < Lawouach_> so I was saying |
[15:17] < Lawouach_> vmlemon: http://www.defuze.org/archives/18-XMPP,-AtomPub-and-microblogging.html |
[15:17] < Lawouach_> Might interest you :) |
[15:17] < vmlemon_> Aah |
[15:18] < vmlemon_> I'll look soon, but it sounds interesting from the URL |
[15:29] < vmlemon_> kamaeliabot: dance |
[15:29] Reply: does the macarena |
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[15:42] < Davbo> Twitter is XMPP isn't it Lawouach_? |
[15:42] < Davbo> I can update that from sms/jabber etc |
[15:45] < Lawouach_> I think yes. i'm not inventing anything new ;) |
[15:45] < Lawouach_> Just having fun :) |
[15:47] < Davbo> oh i know, it's really cool imo |
[15:47] < Davbo> Just saying that I think it's really useful |
[15:48] < Lawouach_> :) |
[16:14] < Lawouach> back |
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[18:04] < Davbo> Argh, you gotta hate it when things are named with an acronym in mind - Music Orchestration Systems in Algorithmic Research Technology (MOSART) |
[18:05] < vmlemon_> Looks like they thought of an acronym, and then tried to bend words around it in the hope that it makes some form of sense |
[18:06] < Davbo> Exactly. |
[18:41] *** mhrd is now known as mhrd-afk |
[18:53] *** vmlemon_ is trying to think of a name for the rabbit at http://openlina.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=69&p=357 |
[20:07] *** MS- has joined #kamaelia |
[20:08] < MS-> evening |
[20:08] *** MS- changed the topic to Next weekly meeting 4pm 22nd May 2008 (first of restart) | Don't ask to ask, just ask (channel is logged: http://yeoldeclue.com/logs/ ) |
[20:08] *** MS- changed the topic to Next weekly meeting 4pm 22nd May 2008 | Don't ask to ask, just ask (channel is logged: http://yeoldeclue.com/logs/ ) |
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[20:10] < mhrd-home> evening all |
[20:10] < MS-> evening |
[20:11] < vmlemon_> Hi mhrd-home |
[20:12] < MS-> question (to anyone): What do you get if you type: |
[20:12] < MS-> "nslookup edit.kamaelia.org" |
[20:12] < MS-> on a console |
[20:12] < Davbo> bash: nslookup: command not found |
[20:12] < Davbo> :) |
[20:13] < Davbo> Glad I could help! |
[20:13] < Davbo> ;-) |
[20:13] < mhrd-home> nmatteh@r44115:~$ nslookup edit.kamaelia.org |
[20:13] < mhrd-home> Server: 192.168.1.1 |
[20:13] < mhrd-home> Address: 192.168.1.1#53 |
[20:13] < mhrd-home> Non-authoritative answer: |
[20:13] < mhrd-home> Name: edit.kamaelia.org |
[20:13] < mhrd-home> Address: 132.185.142.2 |
[20:13] < MS-> Or host edit.kamaelia.org |
[20:13] < MS-> or ping edit.kamaelia.org |
[20:13] < MS-> mhrd-home: Cheers |
[20:13] < MS-> Looks like it's propogated somewhere then :-) |
[20:13] < mhrd-home> host (unsurprisingly) returns the same address |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> nslookup edit.kamaelia.org |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> Server: 193.35.133.10 |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> Address: 193.35.133.10#53 |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> Non-authoritative answer: |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> Name: edit.kamaelia.org |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> Address: 132.185.142.2 |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> Here |
[20:14] < MS-> Cool, visible in at least 2 locations then |
[20:14] < mhrd-home> oh d*s% my rice just boiled over :) |
[20:14] < vmlemon_> Not sure why Server: is different for me |
[20:14] < MS-> That's your local DNS server |
[20:14] < Davbo> PING edit.kamaelia.org (132.185.142.2) 56(84) bytes of data. |
[20:14] < Davbo> 64 bytes from kamaelia.kw.bbc.co.uk (132.185.142.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=39.6 ms |
[20:15] < Davbo> FYI |
[20:15] < MS-> ta |
[20:16] < Davbo> What you doing with that MS-? |
[20:17] < vmlemon_> Aah |
[20:17] < Davbo> is that the server that's only visible from outside the BBC network? |
[20:17] < MS-> Yes, but I've found a work around |
[20:17] < vmlemon_> Coral Cache/Tor? |
[20:17] < vmlemon_> Or more subtle? |
[20:17] < MS-> If the DNS service is one that the BBC network can see, then it can do a DNS lookup, find the address and the the BBC web proxies understand how to get to it |
[20:18] < MS-> It's a little convoluted |
[20:18] < j_baker> MS-: when you get a chance, I was wondering if you could give me some advice on a component I'm designing. |
[20:18] < vmlemon_> Can't you cheat and use something like OpenDNS? |
[20:18] < MS-> vmlemon_: For who? |
[20:19] < vmlemon_> For testing the server that's only externally visible |
[20:19] < MS-> No that wouldn't solve the problem |
[20:19] < MS-> (if open dns does what I think it does) |
[20:19] *** Davbo uses OpenDNS |
[20:20] < MS-> But that's a client side "solution" yes ? |
[20:21] *** vmlemon_ was going to say that it might not provide access to the BBC internal proxies, assuming that they're only accessible via a certain DNS name (and that they can't be accessed otherwise by using the IP address)... |
[20:21] < vmlemon_> *using just the IP address |
[20:22] < MS-> I don't understand what you're getting at |
[20:22] < MS-> 132.185.142.2 is accessible from outside the BBC - which is fine, that's what it's there fore |
[20:22] < MS-> However, inside the BBC, we have to use a proxy to access anything outside |
[20:23] < MS-> There's a special rule in the bbc.pac autoconfig to say "if it's this network range, yes, do actually use the proxy" |
[20:23] < MS-> However, the real oddity is that because there's a firewall between the inside and outside, there is a nasty re-use of ip addresses. |
[20:23] < vmlemon_> Ouch |
[20:23] < MS-> ie there's a 132.185.142.2 inside *and* outside |
[20:24] < MS-> So if you have a DNS glue record |
[20:24] < MS-> that says ns0.kamaelia.org is 132.185.142.2 |
[20:25] < MS-> and have this rule: |
[20:25] < MS-> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: |
[20:25] < MS-> kamaelia.org. 42755 IN NS ns1.kamaelia.org. |
[20:25] < MS-> kamaelia.org. 42755 IN NS ns0.kamaelia.org. |
[20:25] < MS-> Then outside the BBC, the world will do the right thing, and be able to see the server. |
[20:25] < MS-> However inside, DNS lookups will go horribly wrong |
[20:25] < MS-> Meaning that the client never gets redirected through the proxy to the server |
[20:26] < MS-> Hosting the DNS serving *outside* that network completely |
[20:26] < MS-> kamaelia:/etc # host ns0.kamaelia.org |
[20:26] < MS-> ns0.kamaelia.org has address 212.56.88.101 |
[20:26] < MS-> Bypasses that problem |
[20:27] < Davbo> Sounds a bit messy |
[20:27] < MS-> yeah |
[20:27] < Davbo> but hey, if it works. |
[20:27] < Davbo> What you planning to use it for? |
[20:28] < MS-> I think the hint is in the name used ;) |
[20:28] < MS-> edit.kamaelia.org |
[20:28] < MS-> OK, |
[20:28] < vmlemon_> Wiki editing interface? |
[20:28] *** MS- goes back to fiddling with stuff |
[20:28] < j_baker> Today's fish is trout ala creme, please enjoy your meal. |
[20:31] < MS-> j_baker: I'd really appreciate whatever question you have to be sent to the list |
[20:31] < MS-> I've got a really odd headache at present |
[20:32] < j_baker> np :) |
[20:37] *** MS- watches BSG instead |
[20:37] *** MS- is now known as ms-away |
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[21:22] < vmlemon_> o.O [22:19] < alanc> the marketing guys didn't like me when they asked if we could have a screensaver show off our eco-responsibility somehow and I responded the best way to do that was to rename "blank screen" to "eco-responsible blank screen" |
[21:27] < bcarlyon|laptop> lol |
[21:41] < Davbo> What word would you use to describe a feature you had in the design stages but was missing in the Implementation? |
[21:41] < vmlemon_> Hmm, not regression |
[21:41] < Davbo> I'm writing this presentation but I don't want to sound too harsh on the people which programmed it |
[21:41] < Davbo> ie. They will be in the room lol |
[21:42] < vmlemon_> "A cut feature"? "A feature that didn't quite make the release"? |
[21:42] < vmlemon_> Can't think of a single word at the moment, though |
[21:42] < Davbo> humm, thanks anyway :) |
[21:43] < Davbo> I have a list of "Functionality" then i want a list of Cut Features without being so harsh lol |
[21:45] *** vmlemon_ wonders if Microsoft maintains lists of "disfunctionality" for their products ;) |
[21:49] < Davbo> Well whatever i put down is better than what it was before |
[21:49] < Davbo> (one list titled "Does" and one titled "Doesn't") |
[21:49] < Davbo> :| |
[21:50] < vmlemon_> It's better than nothing |
[21:50] < vmlemon_> "Coming Soon..."? |
[21:51] < Davbo> "Missing features" |
[21:51] < Davbo> that'll do. |
[21:52] < Davbo> Well nobody is gonna be adding anything vmlemon_ so they really are missing |
[21:52] < vmlemon_> OK |
[21:53] < Davbo> Thanks for helping :) |
[21:53] < vmlemon_> No problem |
[22:31] < vmlemon_> Night |
[22:49] < mhrd-home> night |
[22:49] *** mhrd-home has parted #kamaelia |
[23:31] < Davbo> Night all. |