Theme days 3, 4 and 5

So, theme days… Lots of themes I forgot to post (more like I didn’t really have the time)

Theme for day 3

So, day 3 was another cleaning day. It wasn’t really intended to be a cleaning day, but since my mom really wanted to get my desk out of the house and replace it with a different setup, I kind of was pushed into cleaning…

The result is estounding though, lots and lots of work has been put in it, but right now, my desk is bigger, cleaner and all around me, I have more space. That + I now have greater freedom, and movement makes me feel a lot more productive (It’s the feeling that counts ^^)

Theme for day 4

Day 4 was kind of a cleaning aftermath + pySM day. Since the cleaning we had a lot of stuff to throw away (because they were absolete), and it’s still an ongoing process of course.

After that we did pySM for a long-long time… Tim came by and we were going forward on our respective parts. We had long and hard discussions on how to deal with some of the problems we were facing. A lot of progress was made, especially in the area where we discussed a lot of stuff ^^

Another problem pySM seems to face is our third developer. We haven’t really heard much of him, and we constantly need to remind him to continue developing. We gave him a part of the project that is equally important as our two, but less hard (mostly data storage, comparison and retrieval).
Granted, he wasn’t (and still isn’t) really up to speed with python, and it’s been a lot to process on his part these past few weeks. However, seeing _no_ progress at all isn’t really positive. He keeps telling us he’s trying to figure things out, and he’s trying to build testcases. Which we’d love to believe, but we don’t see any proof + he doesn’t seem to commit to svn. I’ll be bugging him later to commit more.

Theme day 5

I guess when my count is correct, that should be today.

So todays theme is mostly about pySM. I’ve been making great progress on the XMPP server, although it’s currently only static progress. The server isn’t really dynamic at all. It just responds conditioned to certain requests. When those things work properly, I’ll be working on making things more dynamic, pluggable since we’ll be needing modular more than static. However, progress is progress, and especially in understanding the protocol the progress is huge.

Aside from that, when reading the archlinux forums I found a post about a start page for archlinux. Kind like the firefox startpage, but with searchoptions for google, archlinux forums and archlinux wiki.
So that really intrigued me and I set up that page at http://arch.codercpf.be/ because I already have a home page (speed dial) on firefox.
Like this, I still have the functionality featured by the start page, and the speed dial.

So, I cleaned up the code some and I’m thinking about putting a small rss reader and small database in there written in django. It would be great to polish my django skills on a small project. I’m just going to figure out how to deal with the rss reading. Since my host supplies a simple cron interface, I assume it’ll run like that.

So, I got something to play with, and y’all are thanked for the great support recently!

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