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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Archive for July 2008

Rokers zijn sexy (Dutch)

Want laten we eerlijk zijn, rokers hebben humor. Rokers hebben stijl. Rokers zijn sexy motherfuckers. Na het neuken rook je samen bezweet een sigaret in bed. Niet-rokers aaien samen een kat. Beste.. column.. ooit: Rokers zijn sexy

Why Python Rocks III: Parameter expansion

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 Awesomeness. All articles in this series: Why Python Rocks I: Inline documentation Why […]

Vacation

I’ll be on vacation from now till the 26th of July.

Python destructor and garbage collection notes

I hardly ever use destructors in Python objects. I guess Python’s dynamic nature often negates the need for destructors. Today though, I needed to write some data to disk when an object was destroyed, or more accurately, when the program exited. So I defined a destructor in the main controller object using the __del__ magic […]

pyBrainfuck v0.2 released

I just released v0.2 of pyBrainfuck. PyBrainfuck is a speed-optimized Brainfuck interpreter written in Python. Some other Python interpreters already exists for Brainfuck, but they are either obfuscated or awfully slow. PyBrainfuck has been optimized for speed by doing various preprocessing on the code such as pre-caching loop instructions, removing non-instructions, etc. PyBrainfuck also has […]

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