I’ve been pretty quiet of late because I’ve been trying to get ready for this year’s review season at work and because I have a very sick application ( as in, it is on a server with an indeterminate and short lifespan ) that I’m trying to clone on new hardware with an interface facelift and move to a new standard of Perl.
Additionally, I have my Latin II final tomorrow.
Probably won’t be much action here until I get the finals behind me and some writing done.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Gee, that sick application wouldn’t happen to be NAILS would it?
Long time no talk. Happy review…
May 30th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Actually, no, NAILS (now called Mailguard) has been a real success story. I deployed the original version ~ 2 years ago (as I believe I mentioned to you at St. John’s in S/vale on your visit) and just revisited the codebase this year, standardized it, cleaned it up a bit, and its now living under the MIT license at: http://code.google.com/p/cmailguard. So think of it, NAILS’ blood descendent now available for your further perusing thanks to google
Here’s a quick PDF summation:
http://cmailguard.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mailguard/doc/Mailguard_Presentation.pdf
You’ll notice your glorious own name in a few files in the Subversion tree:
http://code.google.com/p/cmailguard/source/browse/trunk/mailguard/lib/EMS/LogIt.pm
I actually used this code to replace the infamous ‘dudewheresmycar’ function and the customized bounce-back server (d_head).
The problem host is cliff…aka the big nasty, moving its whole ecosystem somewhere new. I’m actually almost done with it.
Peep Dis: Subversion Checkout + M4 config file configures all the perl for dev/stage/prod + autodeploys to custom virtualized web servers == sanity. All the user interface has been moved to Template::Toolkit + CSS + XHTML.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Wait. Why are you taking Latin? I had three years of Latin in high school, and have spent the years following those classes wishing that I could get those three years back. Then again, I realize that you already speak other languages (I noted that you read The Stranger in French) whereas I speak only English and wish that I had managed to pick up a more practical language while still in school…
June 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Steanso:
I’m taking it, at heart, because while when you really want to condescend someone French is the way to go, Latin takes it up a whole ‘nother notch.
I mean:
Dux stultissimus bellum laudat atque nihil virtutis habet.
Le general plus stupid eloget la guerre mais il n’a pas du courage.
The exceedingly foolish leader praises war but he possesses no courage.
I also have a secret project underway that uses the latin verb structure as its core technology. In contrast to French and other Romance languages Latin is exceedingly regular ( as it is whole unto itself ).
That said, I read the Cambridge Latin series and can see why that would be very frustrating against the backdrop of people learning things like “Where is the bar” in Spanish. When you learn Latin at the college level you’re taught to think about the entire language as machinery, and it is this approach that very much resonates with me. I assume Texas educators are of the opinion high school kids are not able to learn a language deductively.