It seems like those wily TurboGears folks are at it again, talking about actually using stuff I wrote (RuleDispatch, in this case). What is it with them, anyway? 🙂 Whatever it is, I hope they keep it up. In all fairness, Django actually started...
The other day I got an email from someone who’d read my Self 2.0 article, and was contemplating making a similar change. They asked:Is there anything you’d care to share about who or what facilitated this change?My first thought was that I’d already...
Four and a half days later, I now have power, phone, and DSL again. Hurricane Wilma hit us with unexpected force, leaving millions of people without electricity – even now. The estimates they’ve been giving on the news say that for most of...
Over the years, there have been many, many failed attempts to create alternative VMs for Python, in the hopes of increasing program performance. Even if we ignore the many half-finished Python-to-Parrot translator projects still lurching erratically...
It all started a couple days ago, when Ian Bicking posted about his attempt at using generic functions for a simple JSON-ification task.Then, Rene Dudfield posted comments to the effect that generic functions were a poor fit for the task, and slower...
About a month and a half ago, I pulled off the most successful hack of my own mind, ever. You could call it a personality transplant, or maybe an identity theft. It was so successful that it almost seems wrong to say that I was the one who did it...
When Kevin Dangoor sent me the TurboGears announcement yesterday, and I went to check the site out, the first thing that impressed me was the page on the Kid template language. I just had to click over to the main Kid site to check it out.The truth...
Okay, so TurboGears is cool. Not because it’s another Python web framework, but because it’s a… megaframework? Okay, so it’s not a framework, but what the heck is a megaframework?Not that I have a better name for it, mind you. It is definitely a new...
Last week, I started to describe SCALE, the Syntax for Configuration And Language Extension. I haven’t had enough time yet to actually implement it, but this evening I was able to whip up an implementation of its low-level parser. As it turns out...
In XML.com: Should Python and XML Coexist?, Uche Ogbuji liberally quotes from and analyzes two of my XML-v.-Python rants, and actually gets it completely right. Since at least one of those rants has been cited as meaning I think XML is the spawn of...
Well, we’re about as prepared as we’re going to get. Nothing to do but wait, and take advantage of the simple amenities like TV, air conditioning, and internet service while they last. I’ve been doing some OSAF work, and answering emails generally...
In one of my earliest posts to this blog, I wrote about the essential irrationality of decisionmaking, and speculated that a decision made for a reason might not be a real decision at all. Later, I wrote another post exploring the delineation...
