March 2004

I spent some time catching up on a few Twisted bugs and things I'd left languishing for a while... in the end, two bugs were closed and a test fixed, plus a few odds and ends that have been on my mental todo list for some time.

It felt good to be productive (seeing as work is very unproductive at the moment), although the list of issues assigned to me in the bug tracker is still depressingly long (14 items, most of them several months old).

Part of what I did today was some gardening on my proof-of-concept inetd for Twisted, which has now matured nicely. The core module is now almost trivially short. Seeing code develop into something clean, rather than grow into an unplanned mess is very satisfying. Of course, there's not much need for an alternative inetd implementation, but it's nice to see that it's now dead easy to write with Twisted.

Work

I'm going to start work at a new company very soon &mdash one that isn't in receivership. The new job sounds like interesting work with interesting people, and I'm looking forward to it.

Archd

Exchanged emails with Colin again. It looks like I've convinced him to use Twisted :)

Twisted

Thinking of Twisted, it very recently moved to Subversion for its version control. So far, the biggest problem has been fighting the urge to say "that's fixed in CVS" or "use the latest CVS", and other phrases like that. Unfortunately, "that's fixed in SVN" doesn't have the same ring to it. Maybe I'll get used to it.

PyCon is on again, and a good chunk of Twisted developers are there again this year. Unfortunately, I'm not there with them this time. I guess there's always next year. At least Anthony is there as the token Aussie, and his talk titled "Scripting Language" My Arse: Using Python for Voice over IP looks like it will be good too.