Category: Etc

Bloom cherries bloom!

• Spring is officially here. Everything is blooming and starting to show leaves. This is good for me, as I’m mildly affected by that seasonal mood thing.
• Port port port
  • Attended the #dojo-meeting yesterday and I’m officially on the hook for dojo.undo. Time to start peeking at what others have done.
  • Got another patch into base. Yay! Just a little typo in cleanNodeEvents, which may be going away anyway?
  • Started working on porting some of our code that uses node positioning and really felt hampered by abs and the pixelizer not being public. Had to pull some silly crap to make my rev of dojo.widget.html.layout work right.
  • sjmiles checked in a big change to how connect / disconnect works, which I think is a wonderful thing. connect now returns an opaque handle which you pass into disconnect to let go of the connection. Formerly, you had to pass the same arguments to disconnect as you passed to connect, which just doesn’t work well when you want to pass in anonymous functions, or bind a free function to another object as context. This way, it’s always consistent and it should always work.
• VPN went down after the firewall maintenance last night. Yay for web mail and an intranet that lives on the public internet. If you’re going to run a business with remote offices and/or folks working from home offices, you really really need this. If you have to get on the VPN to report that the VPN is down, you’re in a bad place. Thankfully, we’re not in that place.
• Crib sheets showed up. Yarrrrrrrrrrrrr! Avast, a pillow!
• Foodage:
  • Breakfast: coffee / scone
  • Lunch: Chicken breast sandwich and a few black beans
  • Dinner: Yankee Stew with noodles. Today was Hacktastic.

Dear planet, please don’t explode.

• Port port port
  • This is taking longer than I thought it would. We have a lot of code to go through and I can’t help “fixing” it.
  • dojo.query is replacing a ton of custom DOM-walking code I wrote.
  • Pulled in dojo.widget.html.layout to help us out with IE6 horribleness.
  • Pulled in MD5 for now. We really need to go HTTPS.
  • Will is going to start helping me kill this tomorrow. Hopefully done by tomorrow night.
• Peller posted an agenda for DDD/NY. Here’s a map showing how to get from Grand Central to the IBM office. Nice location!

Rhubarb season is upon us.

• Make a very tasty, very tart rhubarb crisp for dessert tonight. I loves the rhubarb.
• Big meaty porting is still happening.
  • Most of dojo.dom is gone, so I’m having to pull some stuff into the bl namespace, or rethink how we’re doing a couple things. Walking the DOM element by element is pretty slow, so I’m moving more to dojo.query for most things. Need to dig into that a bit more and see if there’s a way to shortcut the results after the first one has been found.
  • Refactoring lots of our code, replacing convenience methods with inline code where it makes sense. For example, having removeClass and replaceClass is a bit silly when remove("foo") is really just replace("foo", ""). Also had a bunch of overlapping methods in DOM code that I’m consolidating.
  • Console test runner is working again. Yay! Need to get that integrated with our build in some way.
  • Most of the porting is pretty straight string replacement (dojo.event.connect → dojo.connect), but I’m having a good time cleaning up a bunch of old stuff along the way. Can’t wait to finish up and get numbers on how many bytes we’re saving.
• Tried to install Mono using MacPorts, but it’s hanging while trying to build ilasm.exe:

  MONO_PATH="../class/lib/net_2_0_bootstrap:$MONO_PATH"
  /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/
  _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_devel_mono/
  work/mono-1.2.3.1/runtime/mono-wrapper ../class/lib/net_2_0_bootstrap/mcs.exe
  /codepage:65001 /lib:../class/lib/net_2_0_bootstrap /r:../class/lib/net_2_0_bootstrap/PEAPI.dll
  /r:Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter.dll /r:Mono.Security.dll
  -d:NET_1_1 -d:BOOTSTRAP_NET_2_0 -debug -target:exe -out:ilasm.exe
  ILParser.cs  @ilasm.exe.sources

  • Update: Running the install again seemed to fix the issue, whatever it was. Might be that letting the laptop go to sleep while the compile is happening makes it angry? Either way, mono, mcs and gmcs are all working now.
• Getting excited to head down to NYC for DDD/NY.
• Food Report:
  • Brunch: Bacon, egg & cheese whole wheat bagel and regular coffee
  • Dinner: Chili con carne, baked ziti, cookies
  • Dessert: RHUBARB CRISP

Ah, the weekend.

• Up in Saratoga Springs at the new house.
• Yay, painting trim in the baby’s future room.
• Yay, espresso with fresh beans. Decaf is actually pretty good too.
• Dad is now pursuing independent contracting opportunities, possibly just plain old retirement.
• Picked out a crib and dresser for the kid’s room.
• Ate dinner at the clubhouse to chew up our monthly requirement. The food was… uninspired. Note: if you want medium rare steak, don’t go here.
• Tried to play golf this morning, but the course was packed till 10. Next time.

Better late than really really late.

• More portage.
  • Got the HTML test runner for 0.9 working and wrote some fancy tests for the string builder, all of which are now in dojox. Still some ongoing discussion of how best to implement such a class and how to get the best perf out of it. Should be fun stuff to look at during DDD/NY.
  • Started porting our code in earnest. Most of it is pretty simple removal of .event and .html and .style and .dom from dojo. calls.
  • We’re currently using the MD5 class to do part of the home-rolled digest auth stuff we do, but I’m leaning more heavily towards going with HTTPS instead. Just need to figure out a way to fit it into the flow.