When I read the GPL v3 draft the first time (well, I didn't really read it, just gallopped through it and then read an article explaining the changes ;) ), it sounded pretty reasonable to me. I actually was wondering a little, what that DRM-stuff does in there and it left a bad aftertaste. But I decided to think about those issues further, when I read the license completely. Well, Linus apparently read the license completely and can define that aftertaste some better, than me:

Torvalds says DRM isn't necessarily bad

My before mentioned 'evening-project' took an important step forward today. I looked at the code some time and then decided to make the cut today. I split off the genereric pagination part and began building AJAX-pagination into another simple listing used in Tiki(namely Admin->Quicktags, so no demo here, sorry - but I have some leftover business there, so it was a good place to start). It is still buggy, but that special bug was to be expected. The real goal of this is, to make it completely generic. Big task, not easy - and I'm surely not going to think about tracker-listings yet.. ;)
Going the eXtreme Programming way:

1. Do the simplest thing, that might possibly work
2. Refactor
3. Iterate ;)

With the previous post I started to use trackbacks. For now only inside this blog. You might wonder what use that is, but it is actually pretty reasonable. Consider the case, that someone sends you a link to my first solution to the .xsession-erros problem. You will be happy, thanking god and the internet to have found a nice solution - only to realize some days later, that it didn't solve anything at all. You'll have to go searching again for a solution. With trackbacks you won't have to, because from the trackbacks you can immediately see, that I later found out, that the solution didn't work and implemented something working.

My previously mentioned solution for the steadily growing .xsession-errors didn't work out. It gave me some more time to take breath - but it was no sustainable solution. .xsession-errors still grew at astonishing rates, mostly due to inotify commenting every single file-change there.

My bro had the same problem and due to his pragmatics and fatalism immediately recognized and implemented the definitive solution. I now decided to do the same:

# ln -s /dev/null ~/.xsession-errors

... since three days now - and actually it's not really over. On IRC the people still meet and already start talking about the next Trollparties. It seems, that south-america will be a hotspot for the next trollings... ;)

I for my part had a pretty good troll in TikiWiki CVS improving freetag-browsing with AJAX to make sort- and searchable paginated listings of results. On Saturday I decided to stay awake longer after I discovered the Troll-techno-party-live-stream with MC acracia (Yes, she apparantly has some Ragga-skills, too ;) ).

I have to dive into learning now, tests are approaching at an incredible speed. One and a half week to go..

That AJAX stuff has gotten pretty good though (ehem, self-praise, yeah, but I like the stuff ;) ) and I am eager to code it further. It will be my evening-project, hopefully I get my time sorted and my problems with falling asleep, too.