Yeoldeclue http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi Random musings on random stuff... en-uk Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:11:27 +0000 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:11:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Kamaelia 0.1 ms@cerenity.org ms@cerenity.org Where to put our Multicore support in the Kamaelia tree? http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1209413487 Michael discussed before, Kamaelia now has multicore support in subversion in the form of ProcessPipeline and ProcessGraphlines, meaning taking any Kamaelia system and making it multicore is a matter of simply pre-pending "Process" to the pipeline set up. That's pretty cool - especially if you're aware of what our normal cookbook code looks like. The question I've really got is where to merge this on the mainline. Given how useful this would be, it strikes me that like ThreadedComponent & LikeFile and Introspection, this ought to live in Axon. However, like Introspection, it probably also ought to be used from inside the Kamaelia Namespace.
]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:11:27 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1209413487 Interesting thing new faces.... http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1209335385 Michael Google Summer of Code this year I asked upfront our students why they didn't want to use the mailing lists the project uses on sourceforge (since it was clear they didn't) - preferring private mails and IRC (as a project we tend to prefer IRC generally nyway). The response we got was unaminous around the fact they didn't want to subscribe due to SF lists being highly spammy, and requested we move over to google groups - so they could also gain better web access and RSS feeds. It was the one answer I hadn't thought of or expected :-)
]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:29:45 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1209335385 Recent requests/Q and A http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1209334971 Michael
  • I had a complaint/bug report from Steve (no surname) about the dates in my RSS feed (which should now be fixed), about double escaping of entities (which is also hopefully fixes). Steve also made a comment saying that he wished he didn't have to enter HTML manually. This strikes me as odd, because I'm typing this using Dojo's editor widget, so I guess that failed disgracefully on his machine. I've seen that on a few machines, but Dojo's generally got the most browser friendly wysiwyg editor, so I'm not sure what's up there.
  • I had a request whether Kamaelia's latest release is available for windows as a special bundle. The answer to that really is "it's python, so it should work, but we tend to develop under linux & Mac OS X so you may find some niggles". I certainly haven't created an installer for windows. All that said, we are overdue doing a new release, and /trunk is far and away recommended. Even so, that needs updating as well with recent developments... :-)
  • Finally, another anonymous poster made the following comment:
    • Came across this today and thought you might be interested in it Michael:
      ]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:22:51 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1209334971 Python Bindings for AR Toolkit http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206723386 Michael
      ]]>       Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:56:26 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206723386       Writing successful applications - common questions and answers regarding summer of code http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206709783 Michael Kamaelia website linked from the GSOC pages. As such this is written on the assumption the reader is someone interested in putting in a GSOC application.
      ]]>       Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:09:43 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206709783       Summer of Code http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206614319 Michael Our ideas page continues to expand with more ideas and the mixture we're seeing is really interesting. If you haven't put in your application yet, why not? :) After all, this year we're after ideas that are completely different from previous years, since the intent is to allow students to produce something really cool they've always wanted to build, such that it grows the component set in interesting ways, as well as the kamaelia cookbook which given all components (from DVB through Open GL through networking) can be used with one another is kinda fun. (as well as useful because the whole thing is naturally multicore friendly) ]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:38:39 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206614319 Kamaelia and Google Summer of Code http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206109429 Michael ]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:23:49 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1206109429 Kamaelia Multicore Pipeline. The future is here. http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1205626569 Michael
      # setup code snipped, and specifically ProcessWrapComponent snipped
      ]]> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:18:29 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1205626569 Sociable Software (Presentation) http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1204588633 Michael ]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:57:13 +0000 http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1204588633 What is wrong with free software zealots? http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1204287205 Michael Now they think they have the right to dictate to me what software I get to choose to run? cf in italics
      On Thursday 28 February 2008 15:58:08 Dave Crossland wrote:
      >  Even if I choose to use a proprietary program on a open source operating
      >  system. Sorry, I'm not wrong,
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