Archive: Python category
It's been a while. :) So, I ended up buying a Mac Mini, and last week I upgraded the RAM to 2 gigs so I'm sitting pretty well right now. (With the original 512 megs the Mini had at first, things were dog slow, especially when I tried ...
After a month of OpenLaszlo, I've had enough. Coding in XML just isn't my style, I'm afraid. (And yes, I know you do half the coding in JavaScript, but that doesn't change anything.) I don't think that means XML-based programming languages are inferior or anything like ...
Here at work we use ASP.NET, doing most of our coding in VB.NET. After a year and half of this, can I just say that I feel like VB.NET is rotting my brain? Sure, it's a real language, but the more I use it the dumber I feel, ...
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 ...
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 ...
