Now that I’ve been using butter for building quite a large tree I’ve found that the automatic dependancy code needs a little more work before it’s quite doing what it needs to. Presently building a dependancy doesn’t trigger other builds, which it obviously should!

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/loki_mpaa_million/
It really does make you wonder if you can trust anyone doesn’t it?

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One of the things that most concerned me with the change of phone was the battery life of the new model. The 6310i has great battery life and I’ve become very used to never needing to take a charger when I travel. The new one, with it’s colour screen and fancy widgets won’t match the [...]

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Butter now builds on FreeBSD and showed up a few minor problems (now fixed) and a couple of strange warnings…

In file included from /usr/include/sys/time.h:291,
from /usr/include/sys/stat.h:50,
[...]

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After updating my bluetooth drivers and persuading my USB hardware to work (really must replace that with something that works correctly one of these days) connecting to the phone has become really easy. It’s nice when things work as they’re supposed to.
I installed the python app and installed a test script that ran correctly. I’ve [...]

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I’ve been trying to figure out how you get flex to treat things between quotes as a string, something that has a lot of potential uses. The recent changes to Run somehow demanded it so I tried again. The answer was found on my 3rd attempt, and goes like this
“.*” …
It really is that simple! [...]

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After a bit of searching I found FExplorer, a free file viewer for the phone. It looked good and had a few good reviews so I downloaded it and tried to install it. Wham! Denied! The phone has the defaults of not allowing software to be installed unless it’s digitally signed. This makes a degree [...]

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One of the things about the new mobile is that it’s a Series 60 Nokia, which means it runs symbian OS and therefore ytou can write apps that will run on it! Yes, really.
So, I decided to have a look at the development stuff as it might be fun at some point. I downloaded the [...]

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One of the aims of butter is to build only what needs building. Presently every source file is compared with the object that it should result in and the final binary for “up to dateness” and things built as required. I’m planning on also building if the Instructions file in the directory is newer or [...]

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I’ll admit it, I’m rubbish at naming things. I tyhink I hung out with Ryan too long and caught whatever he was infected with as neither of us can name things worth a damn. The present dilema is for butter’s templates.
Presently you define a template that tells butter how to build a type of object, [...]

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Yesterday afternoon I spent a fair bit of time hunting around looking for a deal whereby I’d get the same (or better) mobile deal with a phone thrown in for free. Once I’d done that I had to ring Vodafone to get the magic code from them that would allow me to transfer my existing [...]

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The mobile phone is one of the few things that I’m rarely without. Given how much I travel I spend a small fortune on calls & texts. Presently I have a Nokia 6310i but have started to think about changing it. The battery is starting to behave slightly erratically and I’m having to charge it [...]

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More pictures!
The view from the balcony over the audience.
Ted sitting in the “red” area of the club
Ben trying a prayer stretch at about 2am

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Well, final day of codecon. There have been some interesting talks and lots of good socialising this weekend.
I’ve managed to find a little bit of time here & there to do some work on the CA and have fixed some bugs that I found. The code now on ca.apache.org is up to date and [...]

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From the flight over

Club NV, site of Codecon, prior to people coming in.

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I’m sitting here having just done my first ever talk at a conference! Codecon has been interesting so far with some interesting talks and the reception tonight to look forward to.
The talk was on the code I’ve been doing with Ben on the CA and was the first time I’ve ever dared to get up [...]

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windows can work well with the combination of Apache + mod_dav, but if you’re running XP then there are a few things you need to do if they’re to be a happy couple.
XP will insist on passing the domain name after the username, even if the user doesn’t type it, so if you’re using htpasswd [...]

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I’ve been debating changing my mobile for a while now. Not seriously, just pondering what I would change it to. My current phone is 2 years old and many of the buttons have started to become awkward to use. The battery is slowing showing signs of it’s age with a full change now only giving [...]

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Nature really does know how to put on a light show. Last night the northern lights were the best I’ve ever seen, with the normal hues of green being joined by some vivid pinks. The amount of the sky covered and the energy displayed were far beyond what I normally see. It was truly incredible [...]

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I’ve been looking for a new pair of running shoes for a while, but whenever I look in the larger stores the service is poor or non-existant. When I went into Marathon Sports in Boston it was extremely refreshing to see good service. Everyone in the store was polite and the advice they gave was [...]

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