Everything I say rhymes.
Thu 21 February 2013
I just have a complicated rhyming scheme.
I also hope to start updating this more often.
Error upgrading man-db (and others)
Thu 10 January 2013
When upgrading man-db recently, I ran into this unexplained error:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3.
Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3 …SSH on Spotty WiFi
Mon 05 December 2011
If you've ever been a place where the WiFi isn't great and tried to SSH into a computer, you've likely noticed the high latency (lag) between keypresses and results. This is because each packet takes a while to reach the target and come back, usually being sent multiple times by …continue
Enyo - Service Components
Thu 20 October 2011
A feature I totally missed before and only saw after reading the db8 tutorial. If you have a service that you call different methods of, you probably do what I used to do:
enyo.kind({
...
components:[
{name:"downloader",kind:"PalmService",service:"palm://com.palm.downloadmanager/"}
...
]
...
startDownload:function(){
this.$.download.call …Enyo - JustType-ish Functionality
Thu 20 October 2011
Yet again, here's another bit of Enyo goodness. Inspired by Preware, I really love it when an app accepts keyboard input straight off the bat. I don't have to click anything, I can just start typing and it knows what I want to do. That's what JustType is on the …continue
pygame - "video system not initialized" error
Sun 09 October 2011
I got this error every time I tried getting an event in pygame, so I had just put a try-catch and hoped it would go away. Turns out, the init check is done for almost every pygame.key function too so I got stuck. I spent a lot of time …continue
WebOS's Weekly App Hack 10-05-11
Sat 08 October 2011
Welcome from the Palm Developer blog! Looking for binaries?
Having trouble posting your app or an update to your app using the provided sdltts? Either you're missing features or you want/need a callback from the method when it's done, or maybe you want only a few text strings in …continue
PDK - Minimum Event Loop
Sat 08 October 2011
I recently worked on re-creating this week's Weekly App Hack's hybrid plugin, sdltts. It was compiled for the device and basically closed-source, only mentioning the library it used. I'm going to post the necessary code to make it later, but first I'm posting what I found to be the …continue
Firefox needs to invest more in Electrolysis
Mon 03 October 2011
I recently moved to a many-core system from years in a dual-core computer. When I moved, I continued my same Firefox habits such as multiple tabs but I started opening multiple windows too since I also have more screen space. However, it turns out ALL of these tabs and windows …continue
Django Models without Apps OR Everything Django Truly in a Single File
Sun 02 October 2011
This problem has bugged me for a few years actually, I have tried over and over again to use a single file for all of a Django projects' python code. This has proved very possible as long as your project did not have models, because no tutorial or howto online …continue