Ticking them off the list

[pphaneuf]

Like I predicted, sleep schedule is fucked again, but I'm feeling well, as opposed to before my time off, where my sleep schedule was fucked and I felt exhausted all the time. So I'm confident I can fix it.

Worked on the same bug as I did last week, a unit test failure, but finally settled on a more hacky solution (to a hacky problem, in my defense). It's nice work, though, quite enjoyable.

After work, stopped by gregorama's place to give him the content of his 40 megs hard drive, as well as help him figure out his wireless access point a bit. Didn't have to touch Windows at all, so it's all good, hehe! dzunnmod was already on site, watching Mythbuster and having some beer, so I hung around for a bit, but not too long. I'm pretty happy about this, I can still be home in time to clear off some items off my to-do list.

Writing this at Angela's, waiting for my order. Have I mentioned loving this laptop? Although I'll have to disagree with sfllaw: wireless Internet is not the reality, and while it might be the future, applications will have to be able to handle disconnected mode (I'm using ijournal). Reading documentation on Mac OS X's development APIs today was rather frustrating, seeing how nice a lot of things are there (while sucking horribly everywhere else), and also how Apple skips out on the coolness themselves. My theory that my personal project, XPLC, would be more or less useless on Mac OS X, seems to be just about right. It's got a decent component system built-in, in the form of CoreFoundation plugins, and using NSBundles directly isn't too annoying either, with classes being first-class objects in Objective-C, unlike in C++. Ah, someday...

Comments

[sfllaw.livejournal.com]

That's odd. Everywhere I go with my laptop, I can find Internet access relatively close by for interactive purposes. Then I sit down and hack hack hack.

As for XPLC, I'm sure you can make it a thin wrapper around CoreFoundation.

[gregorama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the data and the advice on the wireless. It was good to see you again and it must happen more often before you depart the continent.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Well, I sat down and didn't get Internet. Sitting at the office, at Angela's, at gregorama's place (in a dense apartment building, there was actually about four networks around, all locked up). I think I tried as well in the Second Cup at the metro level of the 2020 University, without success. Admittedly, I haven't tried that many places overall. Still, I think disconnected operation ability wouldn't be that superfluous. And best case, you're online, and that's that.

The API for the activation of CoreFoundation plugins would be extremely easy to adapt. It is UUID-based, and so on. But what is in the plugin, once loaded, could be a bit annoying to deal with. I think it wouldn't break things to have a CoreFoundation plugin contain XPLC components. But if it contains CoreFoundation components, serious twiddling would need to happen.