Ferry Boender
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Why Python Rocks II: Data structures
Okay. So what’s cool about Python? I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to show skeptics why Python is cool, what Python can do that their favorite language can’t do. So I’m writing a bunch of articles showing off Python’s Awesome. All articles in this series: Why Python Rocks I: Inline documentation Why […]
MiniOrganizer v0.1 released
I just released the first version of MiniOrganizer. MiniOrganizer is a small no-nonsense personal digital organizer written in GTK2, featuring appointments, todos and notes. It uses iCalendar files as its native back-end, supports multiple alarms per appointment/todo and has recursive todos. MiniOrganizer currently features: Appointments. Hierarchical Todos. Multiple alarms per appointment and todo. Alarm notification. […]
Breakpoint-induced Python debugging with IPython
Most of the Python programmers out there will know about IPython. Most of them will also know about the Python Debugger (PDB). IPython has an advanced version of PDB (spectacularly named ‘ipdb’) which does the same for PDB as IPython does for the normal interactive Python interpreter. It adds tab completion, color syntax highlighting, etc. […]
George Carlin is dead.
George Carlin, an American Stand-up comedian (though I would rather classify him as a political speaker) died. Here’s an excerpt from one of his acts on American politics: Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass […]
Why you shouldn’t be using S3 or Google App Engine
Recently a new ‘hype’ has been popping up, namely Amazon’s S3 and
Free Speech
Free Speech. Why is it important? Because it’s an extension of Free Thought. Should we be able to think whatever the hell we want? Yes we should. Controlling Free Speech is about nothing more than controlling Free Thought. “You’re not allowed to say this, because somebody might not agree with it. You’re not allowed to […]
Why Python Rocks I: Inline documentation
Okay. So what’s cool about Python? I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to show skeptics why Python is cool, what Python can do that their favorite language can’t do. So I’m writing a bunch of articles showing off Python’s Awesome. All articles in this series: Why Python Rocks I: Inline documentation Why […]
Links
Here are some random links to interesting stuff: FirePHP FirePHP is a PHP debugging library and a Firefox plugin which allow you to output debugging information to the Firebug debugging panel. Since it doesn’t intermingle debugging information with your page output, but writes in a special HTTP header instead, it’s especially useful for AJAX debugging. […]
It’s Alive! Aliive!!
My personal website, Subversion, the projects website and most of the other stuff is finally back online. It disappeared somewhere in April, after another harddisk crash. This time, three of my machines decided to go belly-up all at the same time. All three were in different locations, spread across the country. The worst thing was […]
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