Last week Alex presented to a pretty big crowd for a baypiggies meeting at google. His talk was originally entitled "Black Magic", but to avoid the bad connotation, he renamed it "Descriptors, Decorators and Metaclasses". A pdf version of his slides can be found here. If you are interested in …

I guess that's one of the benefits of the "long tail" of blogging. I can get on my soapbox and speak directly to my audience. I know what to say and how to tweak their buttons. Most of my family and friends stay pretty far away from my blog since …

The talk that my first blog post was based on is now available for audio download here. It's a good introduction to what caused the creation of the language as well as a few jabs at other languages.

Enjoy

So after spending around 16 hours (and writing about 700 lines of original code) on Saturday preparing an entry for The Eighth Annual ICFP Programming Contest, I thought I'd share my notes and some thoughts. A chunk of this is Python specific. (see this thread for metrics of entries using …

I recently read an interesting interview with Linus. While I would recommend reading the whole interview, here are some highlights that tend to support some ideas I've been throwing around on my blog.

Open source programs have clearly made some great advances in the past few years. We've seen it …

I attended the BayPiggies meeting where Drew Perttula talked about his lighting system, light9 tonight.

The crowd was a little smaller since there was no free dinner, but there was a pretty good turnout. What a small world, Drew works two buildings away from SpikeSource at PDI, and I play …

Previously I've blogged about Safari's fork of KHTML and the expertise of Apple's browser developers. With the recent news of Konqueror becoming ACID2 compliant, I yearned for more info.

I just conducted an interview with Ivor Hewitt and Allan (carewolf), the developers who merged in Apple's recent ACID2 changes into …

Not quite sure how to react to this. The only reason for the "switch" as I understand from reading the keynote is a speed bump. Since MacOSX will only run on Apple sanctioned x86 hardware, is there really a difference if it is not ppc inside? There "shouldn't" be a …

I attended a discussion by Peter Yared, CEO of Active Grid sponsored by SDForum tonight.

It looks like he has a pretty revolutionary vision of app servers (the java folks might be a little disappointed). Among current IT folks there is a groundswell of support for using LAMP (Linux Apache …

I just saw Revenge of the Sith (yeah I'm a little slow). All in all, I thought it was pretty good. Just have to say (and it's been said before) it's a good thing r2d2 is such a good hacker.

That little guy can fix spaceships in flight, attack others …