With OpenOffice 3.0 (the AJAX edition) in the works, I thought I'd join the bandwagon and do a little more with AJAX. So I have a dilemma. Much like in the python world (where it is really easy to implement what you want) where there exists many slightly different …

Because I'm fascinated by how your ranking in certain search engines can fluctuate so rapidly over even one day, I hacked out a script (easier than scanning through pages of results). Pass the script a query (in quotes) and the url (can just be the first unique characters of it …

An update of a project I work on, SAM (Spike Asset Manager) has been released. The major focus of the recent 0.21 release has been to up the number of components it looks for. It now finds 274 common Open Source components.

From the homepage:

Spike Asset Manager (SAM …

We had a small meeting tonight. Hasan gave a short presentation on his Really Really Simple Rss browser (45 minute 80 line hack). Details found here.

Previous speakers were awarded their choice of various python books, whick led into a bit of discussion about python books. It seemed that people …

Having Ruby on Rails pounded into me for 5 straight days (it seemed to be a theme of OSCON) caused me to try out Django tonight.

I've only finished the 2nd tutorial but it's pretty impressive what's in there. The only thing that seems a little wierd is that you …

I'm going through my OSCON notes and compiling my notes and a list of interesting websites. The websites will be found here (using my oscon2005 delicious tag):

Yaml

This is the markup language that the Ruby on Rails is using (rather than xml). There are bindings for various languages. The …

I'm up at OSCON and have attended 4 sessions in the past two days. My favorite so far was the Rails talk.

David Hainemeier Hansson (the creator of Rails) did a great job presenting, and I was very impressed by the framework he has implemented. The main gist of Rails …

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 I should followup to the ICFP programming competition which held the second and final phase a little over a week ago. The gist of the competition this year was that you implement a project in 3 days, then two weeks later the specs change and you are given …

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 …