Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Sanswire
Back on the iBook again. Now I can report all the way over here on the sofa. ten...feet...away...from...the...desk. But seriously, freedom from wires is great. And there's something about such a beautiful little laptop that makes it the most personal machine for writing that I have.

The story is, when I moved from Virginia back to Salt Lake City, I sent the wrong power adapter back with my cable modem - I returned the adapter for my SMC Wireless Barricade. This adapter is a curiously tough one to find - 5 Volt, 3Amp. I kept it a low priority due primarily to the annoyance factor. But, finally, an electronics-savvy friend of mine was able to rig the right kind of adapter up, and one hardware reset later (due to having lost the administrative password) it runs again.
11:39:03 PM  blips[]    




Zope 2.7 Project (re)initiated, and the joys of error_log
It's gone through a couple of revisions already, but the real project plan for the next Zope release, Zope 2.7, is now up on dev.zope.org. Among the list of Proposed Features is Easier Configuration, Installation, and Management, a welcome addition.

As for Zope 2.6, all Zope developers owe it to themselves to download it for one reason above all others - error_log! The new error_log object gives detailed access to recent exceptions raised. Not only is this beneficial during development, but it has great testing/deployment uses as well. You can keep an eye on a deployed site to see if unhandled exceptions are happening, and where. You can also get detailed technical exception reports during testing that a tester may not be able to report on their own.
8:31:14 AM  blips[]