Jay McGavren's Journal

As I drove down the 202 this morning my phone buzzed, and as I answered I glimpsed Lenny’s kindergarten teacher’s name on the caller ID. “Oh, no,” I thought, “how can he be in trouble already?”

But no, she was calling for direction on releasing the Monarch butterfly, which was waiting on the remains of its chrysalis when she walked into the classroom this morning. Evidently the kids were at that moment painting pictures of the butterfly, and voting on what to name it.

Whew. That worked out well. Many thanks, Aunt Laura!

0.5.1...

The zyps GUI is actually tolerable now - the main addition was a simple speed limiter EnvironmentalFactor. The Push and Pull actions are pretty cool, too. I also ripped out user-defined conditions, as they just made things complicated and didn’t offer much useful functionality.

The GUI actually isn’t my top priority, but it will be most people’s introduction to the library, so it’s important to put my best foot forward.

Now to get a reliable, safe dRb server (is that an oxymoron?) going before the next Ruby users group meeting. The programming challenge at Desert Code Camp showed me a shared environment for programmers to play around in, however unstable, can be a great deal of fun.

This is a test post to see if new LiveJournal entries will show up on Judy’s friends page. So far, they don’t.

Edit: Fixed!

I still have to go through the Windows Run menu and the clipboard if I want to load saved snippets or otherwise pipe data somewhere. Bummer. That inconsistency will make learning this new system quite a bit harder.

I wasn’t looking forward to re-issuing fifty “learn as open x” Enso commands on each of my machines. What I found, though, is that Enso simply stores ordinary Windows shortcuts here:

%userprofile%/My Documents/Enso's Learn As Open Commands

I was able to simply run my create_shortcuts.pl in that folder and instantly re-create all my shortcuts as open commands. That includes stuff Enso can’t create with “learn as open”, like:

rundll32.exe Shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl

Not bad. Now I’m just awaiting the ability to run Python scripts of my own design on the current selection.