Today's Work
When I got into work this morning I couldn't login to ubik. With a little checking I found that I couldn't fork, the process table was full. So I restarted my machine. Then I had to restart Zope, but I must have screwed up somehow and restarted z8082 twice. As a result, the Data.fs got corrupted. So I had to hunt for the [instructions on how to repair it|http://zps.stsci.edu:8084/wiki/IST/ZopeForum/T4]. That done, I could restart Zope. I finished writing the scripts for the next Zope Zealots presentation and the zealots website finally got uploaded to zps!
Posted on Thu, 28 Feb 2002 Tags: zealots zope
Today's Work
Today I did more work on the Zope Zealots talk. As part of the talk I wrote an external method, ispy(), which dumps the attributes of a Zope object.
Posted on Wed, 27 Feb 2002 Tags: zealots zope
Today's Work
I did some more work on the Zope Zealots talk. I wrote some short demo scripts. I got rid of the ErrorPage hotfix, which was causing Zope to crash on restart. And I answered several questions from Sheri on the Calendar Product.
Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Tags: zealots zope
Today's Work
I modified pagecheck so that it accepts a tilde as a legal character in a url. I moved the change into cvs. I noticed that sitecheck has not been running regularly, so I put it in my crontab on kahuna so that it will run tonight and once a week.
Sheri had some problems with the view_calendar script. The problem happened because NGST uses a modified version of the list method. I changed the view_calendar script so that it doesn't use the list method.
I worked some more on the next Zope Zealots talk. And I finished debugging bo, it now reads the menu format from a peep template instead of a text database.
Did you know you can crash any version of Windows NT with a five line C program?
Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2002 Tags: c html pagecheck sitecheck zealots zope
Today's Work
I finished the example calendar method and mailed it off to Sherie. After that I started work on the next Zope Zealots presentation. Unfortunately, the revised Zope Zealots site did not get moved to zps, so I backported the permissions fix from 8082 to 8080.
Last night the size of the Zope database grew from 2 to 7 gigabytes and no one knows why. This is scary considering that we only have 17 gigabytes of hard disk space.
I modified bo by adding the macro command. The change is not debugged yet. The makefile for archived logs now works.
Posted on Fri, 22 Feb 2002 Tags: zealots zope
Today's Work
I figured out what was causing the permission problem with the zealots. site. One of the methods was calling document_src, which requires permissions anonymous users don't have. I removed it and replaced it with code that uses the rendered document. Today was the Zope Zealots meeting and we had some new attendees, as I notified the ess_webmaster list. I promised the next talk will be on Python scripts. I did some more work on using the Calendar product, and got it to produce a halfway decent Calendar. But I would still like to interface it to our existing calendar methods.
The Perlmongers mailing list pointed me to a web page on design patterns in Perl
Posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2002 Tags: perl python web zealots zope
Today's Work
Greg found out yesterday that generating the navigation sidebar was chewing up a lot of time. It took 0.4 seconds to genrate in one test. Joel Spolsky says to the customer and the boss, looks are everything.
Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2002 Tags: html
Today's Work
I fixed the bugs in the Zealots site that pagecheck reported and tested the NGST DocLibrary. I also modified this log so that it displays a week's worth of entries instead of a month's worth.
Posted on Tue, 19 Feb 2002 Tags: pagecheck zealots
Today's Work
I wrote a script to chop the Zope log files every night to a thousnad lines. I also nice'd the Zope start scripts. I had a bit of a problem getting the fix into cvs. The zealots website is still having some problems. Pagecheck is reporting some problems on a page that I can't find. And we still are having the authorization problem. Sheri Holfeltz asked me how to produce a query for the calendar product. And Mike Wiggs was having a problem with the addstis script that I hope I've straightened out.
Posted on Mon, 18 Feb 2002 Tags: zealots pagecheck zope
Today's Work
After thinking about it last night, I made further changes to Zope Zealots. I asked Jim to move the changed site to 8083 and I wrote a test plan for 8084. After looking at the zealots page on Mike's computer, I made further changes to zealots/standard_html_header on 8082.
I also read the nominations for the Innovation award.
Posted on Fri, 15 Feb 2002 Tags: zealots zope