A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2009-12-17

  • #justCheckers quite the response for developers. More than I can manage actually. #
  • Ugh. It seems everyone who deals with tech, says that word. Different underlying reasons, but its all about “why does this tech not work?!?” #
  • And not work as in not work as advertised. #
  • Done responding to all potential #justCheckers devs. Thanks #dplatonoff for the patch test idea. Gonna implement it in #justCheckers. 🙂 #
  • @jonobacon Just finished reading The Art of Community. One word: brilliant. And thanks for ideas and solutions I can use in my own projects. #
  • OK, I think the stage is set for restarting #justCheckers development. Plan on picking a core dev team from the best contributers. #

Developers, Developers, Developers @ justCheckers

Looks like my recent cry for help with the justCheckers project, was heeded.  I got about 12 responses, and now I’m in the process of picking the core development team.  The developer mailing list is up and functional.   And thanks to Dmitry Platonoff, who I used to work with, gave me a helpful hint to maintaining my sanity.  While I’d like to get as many developers working on the project as possible, I want to be able to coordinate things in a manageable manner.  Also I’m really picky when it comes to code quality.  So I think I will let people submit patches for now, before I start handing out commit access.  Still I’m impressed with the progress.

A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2009-12-16

  • E-mails to write, people to annoy and data-devouring scripts to release on an unsuspecting world. Just another day at work. #
  • Hmm… Should I? I probably should. When? Now is probably a good time as any. Name? Working on that now. Rough idea of what I want to do… #
  • #sourceforge please let me set up my e-mail properly. Please. #
  • Hurrah got another “vanity” #sourceforge e-mail working. Excellent. Now to respond to potential #justCheckers devs. #

Identi.ca Updates for 2009-12-15

  • Hurrah. Quick hack almost ready for release. #
  • Wow. #Facebook privacy controls are open to all by default? Talk about bad default settings. Remember to audit your #Facebook content. #
  • Oops. I just found out that a bunch of people responded to my call for help with #justcheckers. Damn #gmail spam filters. #
  • Another great #shotofjaq episode. Love the idea of buying service from a technically adept #ISP. Most of those are way too expensive. 🙁 #
  • To speak like yoda I plan on learning how: http://www.yodaspeak.co.uk/index.php I know this, old for many of you, must be. Herh herh herh. #
  • Getting the hang of #PL/SQL. Coming to the tricky part of my stored procedure, a merge of sorts. How to select inside a conditional… #
  • Wishing a #lightondark theme for Windows XP along with something for PDFs and webpages, right about now. Eyes melting… #

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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-12-14

  • My TODO list feels like it decided to grow during the weekend. Looks its time to take a whack at it again. #
  • So “Everybody” in #Facebook, means literally everyone, their pet dog and the all-seeing eye of #Google can access that bit of data. Nice. 🙁 #
  • @xopher Tried using qtgtkengines (forgot the exactname) and something like QtCurve theme for #gtk and #qt? !kde !ubuntu #
  • Still RTFMing the #Oracle #database manual for app devs. Almost done. Might change my opinion about #Oracle 10g. Ask me again in 2 days. #
  • When in doubt, and if you can get away it… Pull a Godzilla and pretend not to notice the swath of destruction you just laid down. #

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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-12-10

  • @jonobacon Great work on #shotofjaq! I think you guys have found a great format. Almost like a mini-#lugradio, more refined but still fun. #
  • Hmm… Caught up on e-mails yesterday. Is it a chance to start something new? I’ll see after I get this Oracle merge working. 😛 #
  • Hmm… I feel like there is no such thing as too much sleep. Or at least no such rule for me. 🙂 #
  • Alright the admin stuff for #justCheckers is done. Now accepting interested !Java developers. I plan on fixing the game engine first. #

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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-12-09

  • First snowy morning. Drivers fail to drive well in snow. Free breakfast was great. Thanks. Epic battle with data migration continues. #
  • !kde, !vim and konsole user at home. g!vim at work. #
  • Correction not !konsole but rather !yakauke… even though thats more or less the same thing once you get past the presentation layer. 😀 #
  • Nice! One task less… Still… damn Oracle merge. Do I really have to delve into stored procedures to get my work done?!? #

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News – Google Chrome for Linux, Thunderbird 3.0 & Malware for Ubuntu

Dorian is currently concentrating on writing and getting things ready for Christmas.  So in the meantime, here are some new stories to tide you over:

Tired but Catching Up

Stayed up late last night, and feeling rather tired today as a result.  Still I’m pleased to have caught up on an important task.  Next time there will be less hassle if I keep things up-to-date on a daily or almost daily basis.  A systematic, disciplined and regular approach to tasks has certainly meant that more gets done.  And hopefully with less sleep lost in the future.  Apologies to everyone who have to work with me today.  I might not be all there. 😀