Entries created on Sat, 11 Dec 2004


Blasphemy!

At this very moment, Linus Torvalds has a massive 42 vote lead on the next closest contender for the Twenty Top Software People in the World. Unfortunately, that next closest contender is Alan Turing. Blasphemy! This is just wrong on so many levels. I have a ton of respect for Linus and all but come on people, if you go to this site and don't use a vote on Turing you need to get your head examined. The closest Linus should come to Turing is a tie: if every single visitor to the site votes for both.

To weblog coding stupid diversions ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 08:44 PM

But the world doesn't work that way

I was searching for a specific piece of Dive into Python when I ran into this classic from diveintomark.org:

Tom: "This is really good. You could probably make some money off this someday."
Mark: "Maybe, but I'm not going to. I'm giving it away for free."
Tom: "Why would you do that?"
Mark: "Because this is the way I want the world to work."
Tom: "But the world doesn't work that way."
Mark: "Mine does."

I had to pour out a little liquor for my homies.

To coding python freeculture weblog ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 08:33 AM

Python Tutorials, more than 100, sorted by topic and category
- nuf' said.
To links coding python reference ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 08:26 AM
Optimize Me Harder
- "Nobody *really* modifies the source of open source software." -- somebody didn't get that memo; possibly all of australia..
To links foss linux ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 08:12 AM
New file system (WinFS) has long road to Windows
- It's not going to happen you guys...
To links diversions microsoft ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 06:52 AM

More on cross-breading ZPT and XSLT - Transformation Templates in Kid

This is the second post in response to cross-breading ZPT and XSLT. I'd like to dig into how I'd like templating to work in Kid and Leslie opens the door for me:

... maybe this is the sort of thing Ryan's thinking about-- I wonder how hard it would be to hack this into Kid? It would give only a subset of XSLT's capabilities in trade for simplicity, and would only offer the pull approach, but it would give XML-pipelining to a ZPT-ish technology.

To weblog coding python xml kid splice ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 05:31 AM

A Crash Course in Python
- Nice intro to Python HTML-based slides. This covers a ton of info in a very small space.
To links coding python reference ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 05:02 AM
The groovy sinking ship
- Hani at his finest, lambasting the Groovy project and the Dynamic Java meetup.
To links bile coding funny java ... on Sat 12/11/04 at 02:59 AM