Friday, September 19, 2003|
it's all good I'm heading out this weekend on a trip to celebrate my 8th wedding anniversary. My wife has booked a stay for us somewhere, and I don't know where. Tomorrow we'll get in the car, and she'll tell me where to drive. I have so far resisted the urge to get a hint or to guess. It's been tough. There's nothing more irresistible to me than knowledge I do not have. I don't have to go back to work until Wednesday. Funny, even though we've been told that it's crunch time at work, I've been having a lot of fun, getting much more work done than normal, without knocking myself out and staying really late. It's a nice change from the frustrating experiences that have led up to it. I've been spinning my wheels at work, and not enjoying the result.
But I don't have to think about work until Wednesday. So shut up
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minor peeves It'd be a lot easier if the title and the commentLink were in the default radio template. I keep forgetting to put them back when I change themes. 7:52:23 PM  comments () trackback []
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dynamic languages play with your mind. I went through an interesting thought process while working on the code to drive the radio. My initial thought was to do a full blown interface for the radio. Do the classic gui representation of a radio, with knobs and lights and all that. I may still do that, but as I asked myself what I really wanted to do, the effort shifted gears, and what I ended up with is a set of classes and functions that just make it really easy to make the radio do what you want it to do. So instead of writing this general purpose application, you can create a special purpose radio for whatever service you are monitoring. And since it's all being done in Python, it's easy to do some nifty things like writing code that searches for certain radio channel activity and use the results to write a program that specifically scans for those channels.
Yeah, that sounds confusing, but metaprogramming is always much harder to describe than it is to do. Writing programs that write programs is kind of fun. |
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back Okay, so it's been awhile. Got my hair cut. I've been doing a bit of python coding on the side. Simple stuff -- I wrote some basic scanning and searching clients for a computer controlled radio, and I dabbled a little bit with a baseball statistics database. It's been quite fun to throw things together with Python. Things just start to flow.
The upcoming SideKick software update is exciting. I'll certainly be using the SSH stuff. I am 90% satisfied with the Sidekick for the time that I've had it. The phone stuff is somewhat awkward at times, but I never made all that many calls. I do a lot more email and surfing. My sister and I will bounce text messages back and forth. I use the data much more than I use the voice minutes. I'd like a Color SideKick, but can't really justify the expense now. I'd have to pay the higher costs, since I wouldn't qualify as a new customer. Oh well. I really like what I've got. |
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test post something to make the theme be uploaded 7:18:04 PM comments () trackback []
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