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The long awaited update · 10. October 2004, 16:32
The longer I take to update my web sites, the less I seem to have to say…or perhaps I just say less about more.
Life
Life has been busy in good and not so good in many ways recently. I prefer to keep my weblog away from personal and political topics in general so I’ll summarise that statement here:
- Work has been a major focus of my life for the last 6 weeks. A (very) little more about that in the future.
- I just spent a fantastic 9 days in Mallorca – I might post some public pictures of places visited soon.
Books
I’ve been busy reading in the last couple of months, even if I’ve been remiss in posting here about the books. Books awaiting review are:
- Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham
- The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
- The Unburied by Charles Palliser
Hopefully I’ll write mini reviews of each of these books in the near future (for anyone who can’t wait: they’re all worth a read but they’re not all for everybody).
Web work
All work on my various web sites and pyblosxom has been halted recently as I catch up on important life details. Hopefully I’ll have a little time over the next couple of weeks to devote to them. Priorities include:
- Upcoming pyblosxom 1.1 release focusing on performance. Help with any documentation issues that are remaining
- Bonsai Bugs: upgrade current site to pyblosxom 1.1 and finish work on new implementation (it’s almost finished now, really it is)
- backprop.net: Increase my rate of posting there – I’m hoping to schedule in some regular research paper reading particularly on machine learning approaches to playing Go. I’m down to “just” 200 unread posts on the computer-go mailing list. I’ll summarise some of the recent interesting threads.
- robwall.com: Post the book reviews mentioned above and some articles with ideas on pyblosxom future. I have started to make a list of changes I’d like to make and propose for pyblosxom – I’d really appreciate feedback anyone may have on these and I plan to distill the better ideas with feedback incorporated back on to the pyblosxom-devel list.
- Textpattern: Version 1.0rc1 was released on September 20. I upgraded straight away (there were some worring security holes fixed including one that I reported) although I hadn’t posted until today. The release had its share of bugs however (I’ve hit a couple just while posting this one article), I recommend you grab the r40 release from the textpattern subversion repository. Subversion checkout details are at the textpattern trac site It seems to be much more stable. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds on trac activity if you want to keep current on textpattern development.
11/10/2004 Textpattern Update: Dean has checked in rev 41 to subversion. This comes with the caveat:
This rev is recommended for enthusiastic testers only
I recommend that you figure out how to pull an arbitrary revision from the Textpattern subversion repository (and if you do, leave me a comment here and let me know how to do it! – in the last couple of years I learnt CVS well so basic checkout update is a cinch with svn, I think it’s time I learnt more though…) and grab revision 40 which is currently reasonably stable.
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