My brother is the archetype of a hacker. We wasted many hours learning basic on the c64 back in the day. He used to hook up old monochrome apple monitors to stereo output and achieve some really cool visualizations. (Ben Harper's Opression is probably the best). He wrote tetris for …
more ...Some interesting thoughts about testing and python found among gnome developers. Joe Shaw was explaining how most new gnome apps these days are written in either python or C#. They choose C# for their app (Beagle) because "[they] wanted a strongly typed language" (I think he meant static typing but …
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 ...Was watching this video describing how to "slice" web page designs two days ago and it inspired me. After a tiny bit of digging I found that one can easily script inkscape using python.
Here's the process I've used for slicing web layout with Inkscape. Create your …
more ...Pygments is a source code highlighter. I believe the main purpose is to format code/markup for webpages (forums, blogs, wikis, trac, etc). (I used it on my previous post). But it also has renderers for latex, rtf and bbcode. I happened to desire an SVG backend yesterday, so I'll …
more ...There's a difference between code when you know you will be using it later and code that you're going to throw away. There's also a difference between being lazy and taking time to follow best practices. Below is an example of two command line programs that do the same thing …
more ...If one searched for Oracle and Rails they're bound to turn up a bunch of results that appear to indicate that Oracle is on the Rails bandwagon. How Web2.0 of them. (I'm trying to think of some funny snide remark about a rails acquisition, but can't really....)
more ...I guess this has been around since the dawn of site aggregation (ala slashdot). I'm just sort of frustrated that my previous post's most valuable and relevant comments weren't posted on my blog but on an aggregator of programming links (reddit). I'm not implying that reddit isn't useful for finding …
more ...So [apparently equality for NaN doesn't make sense](http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-July/330042.html_. (NaN or Not a Number is division by zero, and other other operations that return non numbers, which is different than infinity or negative infinity). That makes sense, but sometimes you want to …
more ...Last night I attended the Utah Python User Group meeting. The meeting location was changed to a library in Salt Lake instead of the Mozy headquarters in American Fork. It appears that the more central location was quite a draw since there were some 20 people in attendance.
Jonathon Ellis …
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