I feel sorry for Java Swing apps sometimes (I don't want to get into a discussion about bloat here, cause I'm not really talking about it). Python is immune from it because it doesn't really have a gui library (I've even heard Guido say that guis are provided for better …

Tonight I went to the well-attended repeat of Guido's Pycon 2005 talk "The State of the Python Union". He started off by explaining his "beta [crunch] beard" and how he was now addressed as professor due to it. Then he quickly discussed the syntax of generators and how he copied …

Hmmm, there seems to be a conspiracy brewing. One day I'm blogging about how I'm ranking pretty good for some searches in Google (considering that few read or link to my blog) and the next day Google no longer acknowledges my existence. The three of you that read my blog …

More thoughts on competition... Justin Gehtland's blog where he mentions his delvings into Ruby on Rails was slashdotted today.

Here is a Java author (he wrote a book about the Spring Framework), jumping ship and advocating the use of Ruby for web development. I'm not really a Ruby person, but …

Ok, if anyone is reading this, I thought I might share some investigative work. So after a quick attempt to copy music over to the rocbox failed, I started searching on google for any help. Nothing turned up.... So I looked at the db files on the rocbox and googled …