Archive for July, 2004
IronPython Released
IronPython, a Python implementation for .NET and Mono, has just been released. Fantastic news!
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Great Hackers
An insightful new essay by Paul Graham.
“the best programmers can solve a given problem in a tenth the time. But what if the problem isn’t given? In programming, as in many fields, the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.”
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Bayesian classifier for Python
Reverend is a general purpose Bayesian classifier for Python. This should be really useful for a new project I’m working on.
There’s also a web-based incarnation of Reverend, which you can train.
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Google results thumbnails extension
A cool Firefox extension that inserts thumbnails of websites, Amazon products, and stock quotes into google’s search results. via Anil’s daily links.
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Download Lookout
Microsoft has just made Lookout V1.2 available for download on their site. Lookout is a fast search add-on to Microsoft Outlook. I’ve been using it for a few days. In a shootout between Gmail and Lookout, Gmail edges ahead, but it’s brilliant to have fast search capabilities available in both environments.
Update: The buggers have [...]
XHTML 2.0 Working Draft
The sixth public working draft of XHTML 2.0 has been released. There’s also an HTML and XHTML FAQ.
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RSS Scalability
Dare Obasanjo does a great job of illuminating the issues behind the misconception that RSS has, or can have, a scalability issue. ‘RSS scalability’ should only be an issue for you if you insist on publishing your syndication feeds dynamically on each request, bypassing the bandwidth savings of having your web server return a [...]
IE View Source bug
While perusing Larry Osterman’s blog, I found a simple solution to a really lame quirk of Internet Explorer’s where the ‘View Source’ function will occasionally just stop working. The solution, via a comment on the site, is to clean out your temporary file cache: Tools > Internet Options > Delete Files.
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