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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.