Mochabot log - CommonJS IRC channel: #commonjs on irc.freenode.net

2010-03-15:

[1:05] <Wes-> dantman: felicity and makeup_holder
[2:40] <Dantman> Aaaagh, come on... I try another search for info on converting between an 0-255 int, and a byte... I see plenty of notes on how to convert the byte to a 0-255 int, but no-one notes how to do it the other way...
[3:10] <Dantman> Damnit, I do all this searching and forget that I already had the chunks of code for those tasks inside the old ms lite.
[3:36] <Dantman> I can never find an alarm clock that is just quite a right fit...
[3:40] <Dantman> I wonder if I should get a beagleboard or something, install angstrom on it, and tweak it to work as the ideal alarm clock.
[3:42] <Dantman> ^_^ I could even do the insane and make that alarm clock a titanium app using js and svg, and make the device connect to my wifi so it can automatically update the time...
[3:43] <Dantman> Which reminds me... I need to change the time on my current alarm clock...
[3:43] <Dantman> ntp ftw!
[4:05] <Wes-> ntp has nothing to do with that
[4:06] <Dantman> Heh right... classic alarm clocks just don't bother paying attention to your time zone or the date...
[4:08] <Wes-> my alarm clock's cord isn't long enough to worry about changing timezones
[4:08] <Dantman> Eh?
[4:10] <Wes-> seriously, it's only 6 feet long
[4:10] <Wes-> next time zone is hundreds of miles away
[4:10] <Dantman> Oh, heh...
[4:11] <Dantman> I mean "paying attention to the time zone" as in, knowing when it's time for your dst.
[4:11] <Wes-> OIC
[4:12] <Wes-> Well, my alarm clock hasb een flashing 12:00 for almost a year now
[4:12] <Dantman> heh
[4:12] <Dantman> Hmm, the ai touch book looks interesting...
[4:12] <Wes-> I suppose I should set it one of these days, but, well, you know how that goes
[4:18] <Dantman> O_o a usb dongle....... INSIDE a machine!?
[10:54] <Dantman> I sorta fixed a bug in Semantic Internal Objects... it's not completely fixed, but it's fixed enough that we can now use it without it f*ing up the wiki...
[10:54] <Dantman> ^_^ Take a look at implementation pages http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Implementations/Flusspferd
[10:56] <Wes-> Dantman: Why does my user page show as "not exist" but ashb's shows as empty?
[10:57] <Dantman> Cause I created a blank userpage with the content [[Real Name::Ash Berlin| ]] for ashb
[10:58] <Dantman> You're free to do the same
[10:58] <Wes-> OIC
[10:58] <Dantman> Though creating an actual userpage is always good.
[10:58] <Dantman> Take a look at http://wiki.commonjs.org/index.php?title=User:Aristid&action=edit
[10:59] <Wes-> I never like user pages. Never know what to write, LOL
[10:59] <Dantman> ^_^ I wrapped an annotation arround the real name he already had in his userpage and turned it into a annotation that displays his real name in the implementation pages where his username is used.
[11:00] <Dantman> I've simplified mine compared to what I used to use http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/User:Dantman
[11:00] <Dantman> On other wiki that is.
[11:00] <Wes-> Interesting, can I edit annotations?
[11:01] <Dantman> Mhmm, annotations are nothing but a special syntax used in the page content.
[11:01] <Dantman> [[Foo::Bar]] annotates the page with a Foo property with the value of Bar and displays Bar in the page.
[11:01] <Dantman> You can hide the Bar from showing up by using [[Foo::Bar| ]]
[11:02] <Wes-> OIC - I just call that a link label
[11:02] <Dantman> And there are also the #set and #declare (or was it #define?)
[11:02] <Dantman> No, those are two different things.
[11:02] <Dantman> You're thinking of [[link|display text]]
[11:03] <Dantman> [[Foo::Bar]] is a Semantic MediaWiki notation.
[11:03] <Dantman> It annotates the page with semantic data that can be queried for, and filtered with.
[11:03] <Dantman> And also exported as RDF data.
[11:05] <ashb> where does the list of impls come form?
[11:05] <ashb> Dantman: oops - something wrong with the page: http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Modules/1.1
[11:08] <Dantman> ashb, *sigh* That's just debug info I shoved in, I was hoping I wouldn't have to remove it.
[11:09] <ashb> ah
[11:10] <Dantman> ashb, The Implementations/* pages are used as a list of commonjs implementations, on each spec page a {{Spec}} template lists it's status and as well has a list of commonjs implementations that have implemented the spec, that data is semantically annotated to the page (using Semantic Internal Objects since we need more depth in data), and then queried for to be displayed on the implementation page.
[11:12] <Dantman> http://wiki.commonjs.org/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset=0&limit=20&q=[[Implementation+of::%2B]]&p=format%3Dbroadtable/mainlabel%3D-2D&po=%3FImplementation+of%0A%3FImplemented+by%0A%3FImplementation+state%0A&eq=no
[11:12] <ashb> ah
[11:13] <ashb> i was wondering why only Modules and System show up
[11:13] <Dantman> ;) Eventually that'll replace the status table as well...
[11:13] <ashb> just cos the other spec pages aren't tagged right yet?
[11:13] <Dantman> Mhmm
[11:14] <Dantman> Unit Testing/1.0 gave me an issue...
[11:14] <Dantman> "APPROVED BY DISCUSSION PARTICIPANTS" doesn't quite work with my spec template.
[11:17] <ashb> unit testing 1 was ratified anyway wasn't it?
[11:53] <Wes--> I think the "embeddings" title is absolutely terribly
[11:53] <Wes--> s/y$/e/
[11:53] <ashb> yeah - it should be engine
[11:53] <Wes--> I agree
[11:54] <Dantman> Meh, Implementation is also annoying
[11:54] <Wes--> And Implementations should be "Supported CommonJS Specifications" or something
[11:54] <Wes--> Dantman: Is that globally fixable?
[11:54] <Dantman> Heh, that's a but long
[11:55] <Wes--> you can drop the CommonJS then
[11:55] <Wes--> Also, how do I update my modules list?
[11:56] <Dantman> Wait, how does "web browsers" fit as an engine?
[11:57] <Wes--> exactly like that
[11:57] <Wes--> or, "Safari, Firefox, Opera" if it's limited
[12:06] <Wes--> Dantman: Or maybe "Implements"

 

 

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