I have been working on article about how I wrote Lua code to generate C code to help wrapping object-oriented C (glib-style) and exposing it to Lua, however I have realized that as neat as this sounds, it is terribly difficult to maintain. So let’s pretend it never happened.
Last night was leap-ahead night in the US, thanks to Congress
changing when DST accures. Almost all my computer-based clocks
updated properly, except for my handspring visor. The poor old
thing is incapable of such updates, since all its programming is in
ROM.
I will have to set its clock forward manually, and later set it
back manually. As it thinks DST should happen in about three weeks.
Fun stuff.
Today was a remarkably productive. Resuming the work I started
last night on my remind2pda script, I figured out why it was
crashing my handspring visor. Apparently it doesn’t you can’t have
repeating entries with a frequency of 0! Oops.
The second problem was not my fault, but the documentation of
Palm::Datebook. The perldoc states:
The number of the week on which the event occurs. 0 means the
first week of the month, 1 means the second week of the month, and
so forth. A value of 5 means that the event occurs on the last week
of the month
However, that is a lie! A value of 4 means the last week of the
month, and a value of 5 causes a strange bug that makes all events
appear on the 00th day of the next month.
I also got tired of parsing devtodo’s XML files, so I rewrote
devtodo in perl, and using YAML to store todo lists in. More on
this later.
Spoony and I tried to get cables to sync our phones using
bitpim I was
able to find a cable for my phone (a nokia 2810i or something), but
not for spoony’s LG VX3400. However, the phone cable I got doesn’t
seem to be acting like a proper USB device.