Archive: Programming category
So remember how I didn't like the name "Digital Bridge"? I still don't, and so I've created Outside the Box to be my new programming/computers blog. It'll mostly be about Ruby on Rails and Python and Web2.0 and Ajax and other cool technology (especially RoR). And ...
I've moved Beyond to www.beyondproject.org. (Since I already had the subdomain up, all I had to do was symlink my beyond/ directory to beyondproject/, and then tell WordPress that the blog was at www.beyondproject.org. I love WordPress. ...
Google's starting their annual Summer of Code again. It's tempting to try to get accepted (you get a $5,000 stipend), but I've got too many other things going on.
I'm still debating whether or not I need a separate computer blog, for writing about programming and web development and ...
Last night I stayed up late reading Learning Python. Most of it was ordinary programming stuff -- "This is a function" -- but here are the three things that got me excited and almost gave me goosebumps. First, being able to return tuples from a function (so you ...
The more I read about Python, the more I'm liking it. (See Eric S. Raymond's Why Python?, for example.) I suppose that if I upgraded to Tiger, the binding problem I had would go away. So, if that does indeed happen, I suspect I'll be doing ...
I'm supposed to be in bed (early meeting tomorrow morning) but I figured I'd quickly mention this. I downloaded and installed PyObjC today and tried to get the sample program (from Apple's website) working, and I was so close, but for some reason my Xcode (1.5, on OS X ...
In my linguistics classes, we're doing stuff with text processing/analysis software (like WordCruncher) that's Windows-only, and it's a shame. How hard would it be to write a text analysis engine in Perl or Python and a frontend in PyObjC? It can't be that hard... Perhaps I'll use ...
Can't think of an idea for software to write? Check out Reducing Guilt is the Killer App -- they've really got a point. Getting rid of extraneous guilt makes for great apps. (And by "extraneous" I mean guilt that really shouldn't be there. If you ...
At the library today I browsed through the Python section (QA 76.73 .P98 or so, if you care to know :)) and picked up O'Reilly's Learning Python. Spent the last hour going through the first chapter and a half. Good stuff. It's surprisingly easy to learn, and ...
I've been using both TextWrangler and vi for the last while, but all these Rails screencasts have got me interested in TextMate. I downloaded the trial version and it looks pretty cool, but I'll have to do some real work with it before I decide. It's really quite ...
