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Mind Hacks, based on the new book from O’Reilly.
Works In Progress
Over the weekend I finished most of the new design for rubhub.com. The design is pretty different from the current one, but I like it. Just a few more tweaks, both with the design and the spider, and it will be ready to relaunch. Probably about a week.
Now that the new design is [...]
Quickies
A cool article from DevX by Scott Scriven who shows you how to roll a database wrapper in Python that lets you make pythonic database calls.
Enthought Edition Python for Windows, a distribution which includes a lot of useful libraries like PIL, ZODB, and Gadfly. This looks quite new.
Over the weekend I finally tweaked my css [...]
projects projects everywhere
I’m starting a new project, which I’m hoping will let me combine facets of genetic algorithms with the control of custom hardware extensions on a PC. My initial impulse is to use Python, though it may end up being easier for me to use C#. If it sounds like it involves robotics, you’re [...]
the .ac stands for ass clowns
My breakup letter with an unscrupulous sms service:
I’m really pissed off that you fucktards automatically emailed every person in my hotmail address book without letting me know you were going to do it. That is totally unbelievable, and you can bet I’ll be blogging about it.
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 [...]