Good lord things are getting out of hand in Python land.

I recently bumped up my entire server with the typical emerge –world and –depclean and revdep-rebuild. To get trac working again, I had to jump through some hoops…

• bump my entire machine, watch trac fail with “ImportError: No module named trac.web.main”
• run python-updater (which didn’t seem to do enough?)
• upgrade to unstable trac 1.0.1
• re-emerge world to upgrade all six versions of python (either new versions were posted overnight or apparently installations were damaged by –depclean?)
• set active version of python back from 3.2 to 2.7 with eselect
• re-emerge mod_wsgi
• restart apache

Of course I did a LOT MORE than that to figure out that that’s what I had to do! 🙂

Ahh the price of fame.

I came through iPhone territory by way of Handspring, then Zaurus, then Treo turf, so I can handle this kind of pain. But very disappointed…

1. Install the Kies app from the google play store
2. Fiddle with it for hours before discovering it’s useless.
3. Stumble upon the Kies Windows app, install it from official site, let it spend an hour updating
4. Try to use it and utterly fail to get any reasonable response from it
5. But first, make sure you google to find all the other people with other different random stories of rage and sadness.
6. Uninstall it and redownload a newer version from the same site the same day and install it.
7. Plug your Samsung in and watch it fail to recognize it, fiddle for a few more hours…
8. Fart with scattered settings on your phone to no avail
9. Unplug and replug your phone while troubleshooting and reinstalling drivers in the right voodoo manner
10. Use the Kies troubleshooter for a while, then realize its bizarre failure screens and minutes of spinning anuses are actually installing a working driver for your phone…
11. In the middle of the night, through bleary eyes, see the Jelly Bean firmware upgrade notice – but only because you’re so tired that you watched a blank wait screen for far longer than any fully conscious human could ever muster.
12. Have the firmware fail after it starts, scaring you to death, because it detects your battery is slightly below a full charge. Writhe in pain while you wonder if you’ve bricked the thing.
13. Restart the whole process again after you unplug to charge your phone with a wall wart plug and the drivers get totally fubared all over again
14. Watch the firmware get dropped on your phone, while you no longer give a shit because you are exhausted and disappointed and frustrated.

Yay!

Wow this is way harder than it should be…

1. Make a new circle called “Home Feed” or whatever
2. Pick other circles and drag everyone in that you want on your home feed – you can use the dropdown arrow to “Select all”
3. View the “Home Feed” circle, then slide the “Volume Slider” in the upper right all the way to the right to see all posts
4. View each of your other circles, one at a time, and slide the Volume Slider all the way off

That was confusing and annoying – why not make the home page feed directly configurable? But glad to have it done – my friends are more interesting than anyone I’m “following”, bleh… Now I just have to remember to add new friends to the Home Feed.

I am loving cross-platform development with Qt, it’s robust and logical and leads to amazing native desktop apps. Before getting started, I expected that there would be lots of platform-specific hackery required, and going cross-platform would slow down the end product by 20-30%. But Qt is so reliable, and well-laid-out, and provides so much more than just lowest-common-denominator functionality, that I’m finding it to be much faster than, e.g., developing a desktop app with C# or Java.

Another reason it is giving me leverage: [n] compilers are better than one. (continued…)

Having all your source code closed is really annoying and is automatically solved with this Visual Studio package addon.

Also, this is my first test of blog posts getting autoposted to Google Plus. Prepare for more geekdom and nerdiness, my g+ friends.

And keeping with the theme of including a graphic in my posts, let’s see how this gets cross-posted…