April 2005 Archives

I didn't end up reading any books. Instead I've been sleeping much more than usual, my finger is driving me up a wall, I've had non-stop meetings every night and days now, too, and that's taking quite a toll. The hurry-up-and-wait of a 1 hour meeting is like 3 hours out of my day to prep for, participate in, and recover from each meeting.

I took the bandage off my finger for the evening to let it air out a bit and get some feeling back in my fingertip. It's going to get bandaged up again before bedtime because it's still basically an open wound. I suppose if I weren't so tired, I'd be more interested in all of the layers of skin I get to see now. Bah.

I was going to go camping this weekend, but while packing up the trunk of the car discovered a wonderful razor edge on the decorative chrome trim of the 2004 Jetta. My right ring finger has a giant gash along the topside. Programming is probably not going to be happening this week at all, due to lack of curly-brace-button-pushing-fingers. Grumble. I may actually have to relax and read a book!

My work on TWIG NG is now up on the TWIG website. The URL is secret for the time being, just in case my new security model breaks or I left any crufty code that would sink it. But it's exciting to have it up, even if it is just for a few people right now!

On the DBMail side, looks like there's a critical mass of bugs now. Time to get cracking on them and heading to another release...

And so from here we embark on a journey to the future of TWIG. I'm working on a roadmap that incorporates the various TWIG 3 proposals and renaming my own work at TWIG NG. All reasonable goals will become part of TWIG NG, and anything that can be done in a reasonable time frame will be moved into the TWIG 3 list. And so begins the who-wants-what shootout...

I DocBookified the TWIG manual, but I can't compile it due to some strange errors that don't appear to be coming from the DTD...

jade -t tex -V tex-backend
-d print.dsl
/usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl AdminManual.db
jade:AdminManual.db:3:57:E: URL not supported by this version
jade:print.dsl:1:0:E: end of document in prolog
jade:E: specification document does not have the DSSSL architecture as a base architecture
make: *** [AdminManual.tex] Error 1