J-Space.dk

After messing around with MySQLdb for Python for a night and a half, trying to figure out what I was doing wrong since I couldn’t connect to the remote server, I started wondering why “‘localhost” worked while running the script on the remote server and “<server-ip>” didn’t. Well, hardly for me to know, but it seems the default configuration of MySQL on some systems restrict connections to local ones.

Imagine that.

With that fixed I’ve come upon a couple of IDE’s I’ll put to the test. A current conundrum is laziness. I’m not in the mood to sit down with squared paper and calculate the intricate details of a perfected GUI design. I like the notion of wxPython’s FlexGridSizer which I’ll mess around with. I haven’t found a proper GUI designer I could easily get into (wxGlade seems like a hassle to work with, the Python-specific IDE’s each use some annoyingly specific bindings and IronPython can’t directly imported C extension modules), so I’ll go with that for the time being. Well, either that or implement it entirely through the functioning console. This hurts my head as well, though. I’ve never made a full-blown text app, and I’m not liable to complete the CLI any time soon.

Work is progressing smoothly, money is being saved as I garner more achievements in old games (working up a few New Game plus saves in Mass Effect, finishing off the last in Mirror’s Edge, Arkham Asylum and Fallout 3), and everything is just… so smooth.

Except for an annoying case of sinusitis. Then again, of all the bitter things that could hit me, I’ll take this as a blessing

Take care.

~T