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[annathyst]

Note to self: see if I can decouple evan's LogJam netcode from GLib and whatever other external dependencies it has, and turn that into libLJ one of these days.

Not that that's a high priority. I have an exam in Bullshit^WCultural Ecology of Asia* on Thursday, an exam in vector calc coming up sometime vaguely soon, and there're ALWAYS transfer applications to be done
The only thing really holding me back on completion for those is essays, though...I hate writing the damn things in general, and I especially hare writing about myself. I'm awful at writing about myself**...bleah.

I'm tired of taking classes that have nothing to do with what I want to be studying...want to transfer so damn badly. Want to study CS and do interesting work, not all this drek. I'm going nowhere this semester...only one of my classes is relevant to what I want to study at all (vector)...two are vaguely interesting (Latin, Logic), and one is just utterly worthless (aforementioned "cultural ecology" class. Damn "Cultural Perspective" requirement...)
I'm whining. I'll probably read some and go to sleep soon to make up for my nowhere-near-enough-sleep-night yesterday

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<sub>1. Can anyone tell me what on earth Cultural Ecology actually is?
2. Says the man who's kept a LJ for years now...</sub>

Comments

[elwin.livejournal.com]

Given that the networking code in logjam is thorougly entangled with the rest of the code, that it uses the old protocol instead of the new xmlrpc interface, that Evan seems to have learned to program from his Italian grandmother, and that xmlrpc is quite simple to use, don't you think you'd be better off writing your own library? Or, reinterpreting and determining that the library has already been implemented, that it is implemented on the server-side, and that you could just write whatever client program you might want to write and interface with livejournal via an existing xmlrpc library?

I don't mean to be pedantic. I downloaded the logjam code because I liked your idea. However, on looking into it I encountered the above things, not to mention seeing that it would take more tomato sauce than I could stomach to make Evan's spaghetti code tolerable.

[annathyst]

The LogJam netcode recently got what evan claims is a pretty massive rewrite...looking at it now, it seems to be quite a bit more modular than it was.
but I'll probably end up writing it myself anyway, if I ever do it. which is unlikely

[elwin.livejournal.com]

After posting my previous comment I opened up an interactive Python session and the spec for the XML-RPC protocol. It was quite trivial to access my LiveJournal from the interpreter prompt. If you want a library, it would be a simple matter to write a thin wrapper around an XML-RPC library to just pass through the LiveJournal functions in whatever language.

What sort of stuff are you interested in writing using the library?

Happy birthday, too.

cultural ecology

[emssarm.livejournal.com]

I think it's probably the study on how the ecology (landscape, terrain) has an effect on the culture of the inhabitants. But, we all know that's not true, it's the mode of production which determines culture 8-) (Thank you,Marx!)