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Loki 0.10.1
https://fedorahosted.org/loki

Just put a tarball out on the loki downloads page: https://fedorahosted.org/released/loki/

Check out the change log here: https://fedorahosted.org/loki/wiki/ChangeLog

Gotta get me one of these food courts!

I’m currently working on consuming some of the yum-utils package on Fedora/RHEL to add a repo “mirror” sort of functionality to nushus. One of the files in the package is /usr/bin/repodiff which defines a class that has some functionality that would be super helpful to not have to rewrite. Problem is that you can’t do a straight import on that file because it doesn’t have a .py extension. A little googling for variants of “python import non .py” had a couple different ways to do the import. Best answer I’ve found that provides access to the class was found on a little cheat sheet. Just wanted to post a link and a copy, it has some good information for those new to python and a few little gems of “things you don’t do all the time”.

the link on google went directly to the pdf: All I ever needed to know about python scripting
Here’s my copy of it: All I ever needed to know about python scripting

Answer to my question is on page one of the pdf:

>>> from types import ModuleType
>>> my_script = ModuleType(‘my_script’)
>>> exec open(‘bin/my_script’) in my_script.__dict__
>>> my_script.main(['-t', 'bar'])

Thanks Matt Harrison! (no idea who you are, but thanks!)
Maybe I’ll email him now

In case anyone is looking to learn python, here’s the resource I learned on: Dive into Python

Happy Release Day!

Just updated my work desktop to Fedora 14 . Some how I actually remembered to make a separate partition for my home directory when I upgraded to 13. This made my 14 installation cake. Booted a live disk that landed on my desk, ran the installer, reassigned the mount points, formatted the root partition and was back up and running in no time at all. My irc logs say I was disconnected for 42 minutes total, that included a yum update and reinstalling my day to day apps.

Congratulations to the Fedora Community

I’m in Portland Oregon this week at DjangoCon. On the plane on the way here I started C.J. Mehaney’s Cross Centered Life. This morning I went to the hotel restaurant to have some breakfast and took the book with me.

In chapter eight CJ is discussing the events around Christ being nailed to a cross and mocked for his inability to save himself. He make us vividly aware of how our sin, mine and yours,  is responsible for this painful and agonizing torture. A torture that stretches beyond His physical pain to both His human existence and his spiritual communion with the Father. As I read this chapter this morning over breakfast God shed light on Christ’s choice in dying for us. CJ’s vivid description of Christ on the cross and the choice he made to save us brought me to tears right in the middle of the restaurant. CJ writes on pages 90-91:

“Make no mistake: Jesus [could have descended] from the cross and [saved] himself at any moment. It isn’t the nails that [kept] him there. What [kept] him there is what placed Him there — His passion to do the will of the Father, and His love for sinners like you and me.”

“For Jesus cannot save both Himself and save you and me. It’s precisely because He refused to save Himself that He’s able to save others.

Christ choose to endure “a torment far beyond the pain of His physical suffering” to save the wretched sinner I am.

There’s some documentation I’m working on to upgrade. The ConfigParam’s storage was updated. Make sure you read the release docs for the link.
Builder imported was added.

https://fedorahosted.org/loki

It’s been a long summer, a summer of change for me.

Last night I finished a the book Mark of a Man by Elisabeth Elliot. I’m not an avid reader, at all, so finishing a book was pretty exciting.

The first half of the book seems to explore the worlds view of marriage. The second half of the book explores the biblical view of marriage. I was blessed to have read this book through a trying summer. A chapter here and a chapter there reminded me of how much I love my wife and how hard she works to take care of me and raise our children.

This book often reminded me of how I fall short in serving and appreciating her and the long hard summer just amplified it.

Rewrote the model in loki to separate builders from slaves in attempt to support multinode support. I’ve also submitted a package request for Django-loki to fedora.

https://fedorahosted.org/loki

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Just downloaded and tried out Firefox 4 Beta.
First impression: FASTER!

I didn’t expect to see such a noticeable snappiness to it. Nice work Mozilla.

I got some feedback yesterday that suggested the Nushus Fedorahosted.org page could mistakenly depict the application as CLI only. The feedback also suggested that some screenshots would be a welcome addition to the trac site and would help remedy this mis-perception.

So here the are: some nushus screenshots