April 2008
89 posts
Ripping FLAC with a log on Mac OS X with xACT →
Lucumr Cogitations » Blog Archive » How super() in... →
Looks like they’re making it more like most other languages, to me…
Metaclass programming in Python →
ONLamp.com -- A Primer on Python Metaclass... →
Threadless T-Shirts - Attack of Literacy! by... →
How to Report Bugs Effectively →
Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup - New York... →
WHAT if you could make fuel for your car in your backyard for less than you pay at the pump? Would you?
Pregnancy Tips | Dating Resource →
pyExcelerator (xlwt) cheatsheet (create native... →
If you are looking to generate/create/write (but not read) excel spreadsheets from native python (read on linux or macos or even Windows!), then xlwt (a fork of pyExcelerator) is your friend.
Signs You're Too Old for Hardcore Gaming [Getting... →
Getting Old: Signs You're Too Old for Hardcore... →
Most hurtful was “You’ve pre-ordered GTA IV but don’t mind if it doesn’t turn up on launch day.” Oh come on. I have a life, I have a job…
What the developer of Grand Theft Auto IV... →
I flew over the top of Algonquin (Manhattan) and we caught the most breathtaking sunrise. The other players all noticed it and started going on about it on the headset so we ended up landing the…
Partha's Blog: The joys of MySQL 5.1 (Part 2- The... →
Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your... →
Our guide to better brainpower shows you how to boost your memory, sharpen your concentration skills, and even pop the right combination of drugs and supplements.
Wonder Land - WSJ.com →
Other than ensuring the Greatest Show on Earth will continue, does it matter that Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama Tuesday in Pennsylvania by nine-plus points? Barack Obama is the nominee.
design:guidelines_for_designing_classes_in_php... →
Initially, when making the step up from procedural programming, itâs often easy to regard classes as being not much more than a nice way to group a set of functions.
Gary Wolf profiles SuperMemo creator in Wired →
Gary Wolf wrote a terrific profile of Piotr Wozniak, creator of a memory program called SuperMemo, for Wired. I’ve been using SuperMemo (the Mac version, called Genius) to learn Spanish vocabulary…
PEP 333 -- Python Web Server Gateway Interface... →
Milking The GNU: MySQL so busy becoming PostgreSQL... →
because InnoDB hot-backup feature for instance has never been open source released. So contrary to the recent brouhaha, MySQL has fostered proprietary components for a long time
Memcached Internals →
Programming from the Ground Up (great intro to... →
Bug 472370 - crash in Movie Player: starting new... →
I’m sorry for your bug, pal… But WTF is “extremely perverted animal sex porno”? If you do a bugreport next time, reproduce it with a fresh instance and cleared cache :)
Army's M4 Carbine Controversy Rages →
digital sanitation engineering: Fast datetime... →
So you need parse a date time string in a log file a zillion times? For instance the Apache log has this lovely time format 08/Nov/2007:04:05:07
ONLamp.com -- Getting Started with WSGI →
Working with some blowfish, and as you may know, for this type of encryption it REQUIRES 8 byte chunks. PyCrypto doesn’t autopadd… here’s my code for padding a plaintext string to 8 bytes for encryption: plain += ’ ’ * (8 - (len(plain) % 8)) if len(plain) % 8 else plain NOTE: The above conditional expression ONLY works in Python 2.5 and higher. For 2.4 and below, do...
Pipe down! Brussels slaps a noise order on heart... →
… the new legislation in effect outlawed bagpipe playing for the first time in more than 250 years. The last time was after the Jacobite rising of 1745 and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlieâs…
Python: Myths about Indentation →
There are quite some prejudices and myths about Python’s indentation rules among people who don’t really know Python. I’ll try to address a few of these concerns on this page.
Python Decorators: Syntactic Sugar | avinash.vora →
Python decorators are syntactic sugarâyouâll hear that a lot. Decorators are an extremely powerful tool that, at first, donât seem to offer any real use. Take, for example:
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Truth About IT... →
CDC: Flu season worst in years, vaccine... →
This year’s flu season has shaped up to be the worst in three years, partly because the vaccine didn’t work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday.
Blame The Subprime Meltdown On The Repeal Of... →
Glass-Steagall was passed under the Roosevelt administration in 1933 in direct response to the Wall Street shenanigans that ushered in the Great Depression where banks shoved their own depositors…
Washington Post says you went "beyond the bounds... →
As it turned out, Mike Wise of the Washington Post wasn’t all that impressed with your act last night at the Wachovia Center. He doesn’t appear to be a huge fan of the Flyers’ style of play, either.
Why everyone should write a framework and never... →
The best way to understand anything is to take it apart and reassemble it. In this case we wonât be taking something apart but weâll be assembling it. First off weâll need to redefine what a…
Grand Theft Auto IV: so good, it's criminal -... →
… you don’t lose all your guns and ammo when you die (a positive incentive to go out like Butch and Sundance rather than let the cops get the bracelets on you); saving is automatic; failed missions…
Antiwar.com Blog · Congress Quietly Repeals... →
In late 2006, Congress revised the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act to make it far easier for a president to declare martial law. Those changes were repealed at the end of this January as…
Grand Theft Auto IV: so good, it's criminal -... →
It is, I know, bad taxi etiquette to punch my elbow out and smash the offside window. The taxi-driver thinks so too. We screech to a halt in the middle of the traffic, and he gets out to give me a…
Bad CTK » Blog Archive » One Of PostgreSQL’s... →
One of PostgreSQLâs biggest weaknesses is easy replication and clustering. Note, that I said easy. Thereâs absolutely replication solutions for PostgreSQL, but many of them have serious…
mozdev.org - pyxpcomext: index →
This project provides PyXPCOM bindings that enables Python to be used inside of Mozilla applications. The Python bindings are wrapped up in an extension (XPI file) so that users can easily install…
multipart/mixed: Why I'm Not a [Insert Language... →
Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Python Generator Tricks for System Programming... →
Idiomatic Python - Code Like a Pythonista →
elliott.org | The travel troubleshooter. →
openSUSE Spotlight » Firefox 3 del.icio.us... →
A quick note for those of you who might be interested in testing Firefox beta 3, but also want to have access to the del.icio.us extension â an alpha of the next version of the extension was posted…
Philadelphia's Year of Evolution →
With the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, originator of the modern theory of evolution, just months away, the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with Penn Museum and joined…
CodeClimber: "All I need is a Programmer" →
I thought about this for a minute, and realized that implicit in the conversation are several assumptions (or perhaps more accurately, conventionally perceived “truths”) with regard to the craft of…
Air Force Link - Parody →
Infected B-1B undergoes repair
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FLORIDA (AFPN) â Symantec employee John Crane careÂfully deletes maliÂcious softÂware from a B-1B tail warning system at the Central Control…
Our Local Correspondents: Up and Then Down:... →
After a while, White decided to smoke a cigarette. It was conceivable to him that, owing to construction work in the lobby, the building staff had taken his car out of service and would leave it that…
Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Objective-C →
Bah. Need a refresher course.
Charlie's [Stross] Diary: Brand Dilution →
“In an interview with the Royal Television Societyâs Television magazine, far from covering up their intentions, Virgin Mediaâs new incoming CEO Neil Berkett - who joined the Virgin Media Board…