I recently received the email below. At the risk of starting a flame war, I'm posting my response here.
more ...Hi Matthew,
Sorry to bug you, but I was reading your blog and was hoping you could help me with some advice. I am new to programming and can't quiet make …
I still develop JS in basically the same way I did back in 2001. Back then IE had more of a stranglehold on the browser market, but it was a horrible JS development environment. So one would use Mozilla with the Venkman debugger to make things a little easier, then …
more ...Just a few (rambling) thoughts on OpenOffice I've been having as of late. My daughter just started Kindergarten and my wife is now caught up in the PTA. So unlike the tech world, which tends to revolve around excel spreadsheets, the PTA revolves around word documents. My wife is relegated …
more ...So there's a new "camp". Bootcamp. Come down to Cupertino for a day or two and mix and mingle with a hip crowd of others who want to install web2.0 operating systems on their hardware.... Oh wait, call me when they have XenOfAppleCamp.
more ...Like Duncan, I've also been messing around with JSON-RPC lately. I'm got most of a WSGI implementation done and a python client library done. I have an article describing the client code here.
For pythoneers, I've got a question: This code is largely based on xmlrpclib. It could easily be …
more ...UPDATE (Jan 2007)Duncan McGrego has taken these scripts and run with them. There is an updated version on the cheeseshop! Thanks Duncan. (Behold open source!) end update
While attending FOSS.IN, one of the sessions was a website security session. I only caught the tail end, but it felt …
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