Ready for boot camp!

Next week I'll be in Plone 3.x Boot Camp at American University. I've worked with Plone 3.x for months, but haven't had time to get really spot on with its features. So I'm looking towards this second experience with Joel Burton with a lot of excitement.

Anyway, after spending some time with elephantangelchild's laptop yesterday getting Python 2.4.4 installed, then PIL, then Plone 3.1.3, then taking it back down to 3.1.2, then installing in the boot camp modules, I decided to do the same for myself last night.

I decided to take a shortcut. I modified the buildout.cfg so from the start it did everything in one go, installing Plone 3.1.2 and the boot camp modules. That way I could just do one build and be happy.

Alas, buildout wouldn't work. I had to do my buildout for Plone 3.1.2 and then run it again with the boot camp modules. How silly is that? Oh well, its done and with ArgoUML I'm ready to go!

I want an Asus eee pc

I think the 4 GB version would be nice. I would probably replace Xandros Linux with Xubuntu because then I could work with more packages. My reasons:

• I need a second machine for consulting work.
• It sucks when I want to go somewhere and I have to lug nearly seven pounds of hardware in my backback, not to mention power supply and various other accessories. I bicycle and when people talk about speed increases when they dump just 1 pound it makes me wonder how much easier it would be with a nice light machine.
  
• My production machines I touch now are Linux, so this means implementations are closer to the final development.
• I want some hacker creds.

Its gonna be a while, I'm just being hopeful.