http://www.bitdance.com/blog The Occasional Musings of R. David Murray en-us Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:31:42 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/07/25_01_email6_pypi_release http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/07/25_01_email6_pypi_release The project that I'm expecting to interrupt Email6 development hasn't kicked off yet for various reasons, so I've made some additional progress. The biggest piece of that is a `release on PyPI`_ of the code. It runs fine under Python 3.2, though you need to import from ``email6`` rather than ``email`` to use it. This release provides an opportunity for people who don't want to build Python themselves from the current development version to experiment with the new policy and header APIs, and provide feedback. (more) Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:25:46 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/07/13_01_email6_summer_vacation http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/07/13_01_email6_summer_vacation Summer Vacation --------------- (more) Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:47:38 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/06/08_01_Email6_RFC822_Parser http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/06/08_01_Email6_RFC822_Parser Background ---------- (more) Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:22:52 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/05/23_01_Email6_Headers_and_Header_Classes http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/05/23_01_Email6_Headers_and_Header_Classes It has been three weeks since I blogged about my Email6 work. For reasons I won't go into, I haven't been in a position to write coherent blog posts during that time. But I have continued to work on the project, and this post will bring you part way up to date, with more to follow next week when I hope to have the next big chunk finished. (more) Mon, 23 May 2011 21:53:34 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/05/02_01_Email6_Headers_Everywhere http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/05/02_01_Email6_Headers_Everywhere For anyone who noticed the lack of a blog post from last week, I had a little data-center crisis and spent the whole week moving servers and services from one location to another (long story, not relevant to Python). (more) Tue, 03 May 2011 01:31:01 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/04/20_01_Email6_Checkins_and_Next_Steps http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/04/20_01_Email6_Checkins_and_Next_Steps Last week I made a number of code checkins to the main development branch of Python, some of which were bug fixes, but two of which were major code chunks: the rewritten header folding algorithm, and the policy framework. With all that groundwork laid, I got to start in on one of the interesting and challenging parts of this project: the new header classes. (more) Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:36:45 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/04/11_01_Email6_Rewriting_Header_Folding http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/04/11_01_Email6_Rewriting_Header_Folding As it turns out I only worked on one thing this week, though that wasn't my intent when I started the week. I started out to hook up the :attr:`header_indent` attribute of the :class:`Policy` class. This attribute is informed by a long and confusing history in the email package, and I wandered down most of it in the process of not actually doing what I started out the week intending to do. (more) Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:42:44 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/04/04_01_Hooking_Up_Email6_Policy_First_Steps http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/04/04_01_Hooking_Up_Email6_Policy_First_Steps (Note: given how long this post has turned out to be, I think I may need to increase the frequency of these posts.) (more) Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:56:01 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/03/28_01_Policy_Framework_First_Draft http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/03/28_01_Policy_Framework_First_Draft Last week turned out to be mostly about tests and bugs. As per my last post, I moved the tests into a test package. Then I went on to add a bunch of `additional tests`_ developed by Michael Henry at the PyCon sprints. More tests are always good before starting to modify code, right? (more) Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:28:09 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/03/22_01_Email6_Development_Restart http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2011/03/22_01_Email6_Development_Restart Thanks to the supportive folks at QNX_, I now have funding to do the full email6 development work. I've already `discussed the general plan`__ on the mailing list. The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of dealing with a flooded basement, followed by Pycon_. This week I finally get to start on the project, and that makes me very happy. (more) Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:05:22 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2010/02/03_01_A_Simple_RSS_Generator_For_My_Sphinx_Based_Blog http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2010/02/03_01_A_Simple_RSS_Generator_For_My_Sphinx_Based_Blog This entry jumps into the middle of a conversation I haven't had yet, about my software philosophy, why I use Python_, and why I chose the tools I did to build this web site. What *this* article is about the blog portion of my site, and a simple (and rather stupid) RSS feed generator I wrote for it. (more) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:24:21 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2010/01/07_01_Barracuda_Web_Filter_Small_Gotcha http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2010/01/07_01_Barracuda_Web_Filter_Small_Gotcha I installed a Barracuda 310 `Web Filter`__ [1]_ for a customer recently. The installation, which should have taken perhaps two hours, took five, plus another two of debugging the next day. Primarily this was because the documentation didn't go in to enough technical depth as to how the product worked at the IP level, but it was exacerbated by a misunderstanding on the part of the first Barracuda tech I talked with. (more) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:22:25 GMT http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2009/12/30_01_First_Post http://www.bitdance.com/blog/2009/12/30_01_First_Post If it's my own blog, I get to make the first post. (more) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:56:19 GMT