Archive for December, 2002
Somebody Get Me A Bucket
During the holidays I found a bit of time to start working on a new project to put my fledgling Python skills to use: I’m creating an application for Windows that aggregates RSS feeds from websites so that you can quickly find out which blogs you read regularly have been updated since your last visit. [...]
Happy Merry
Well it’s probably true that my last entry was a bit dry given the season and all . My only defence is that I’ve been seriously under the weather for the last few days and a temporary parting of the twin veils of nausea and lethargy on Christmas eve day motivated me to [...]
Local Var scoping for CFCs
There was an excellent suggestion on the CFDEV mailing list a few days ago about dealing with local variables inside of components. The problem is that variables used inside a component must be declared with ‘var’ <cfset var bVariable = 0> in order to avoid conflicts with variables of the same name used elsewhere [...]
Birthday Bonanza
Well, as you may already know, Claire bought me an X-box for my birthday! Yipee! Halo is awesome. I will struggle on in the face of advancing age to play to the best of my abilities.
Big thanks too to Nic and Jud for surprising me with David Boring by Daniel Clowes. Clowes is [...]
Power Blogging
Interesting look at Weblog Metrics.
“many aspects of the Web obey a so-called ‘power law’ distribution – one in which there are a few members of the set with a very large rating, and a large number of members with a very low rating.”
Don’t I know it.
Axiomatic
I tried out Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?, and apparently, I’m James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon). I’m embarrased to admit that I’ve never read any Alice.
Deep down I know I’m really Greg Egan anyway.
Leapin Lizards!
I’ve been using a trial version of ActiveState’s Komodo while I learn Python, and I have to say I’m really impressed. I’d used Komodo in the past but version 2 has some really outstanding features; well worth the $US 30 for the personal edition. It’s easily the best use of Mozilla as an [...]