Happy St. Patrick's Day from Ireland.

St. Patrick to be Named Patron Saint of Software Developers

Python infrequently asked questions by Google's Peter Norvig

http://www.norvig.com/python-iaq.html.

Now you too can be a walking mesh network

Is that a hub in you pocket or are you just pleased to see me?.

Python gathering in Dublin, Ireland soon?

Possibly.

Python on .NET

From Brian Lloyd of Zope fame. Interesting.

WS-Insanity and WAP

Mark Baker rails against WS-Addressing with good reason. All these nonsense Web Service specs remind me of WAP.

A: "We need a tag to represent links"
B: "HTML uses an 'a' tag"
A: "Okay, lets create a 'go' tag!"
B: "Whats the point?"
A: "Becuase our stuff is different."
B: "Why?"
A: "Okay, whats the next question we need to resolve?"
B: "I give up...".

The WS folks are committed to creating a whole new edifice. It ain't the Web. It's an attempt to wall the garden just like WAP was. They should stop calling it the Web. That way, like WAP, it will find its niche and thrive.

Don Box speaks of a terrible, terrible thing

"""A "terrible, terrible thing" has happened in the past two years, he told developers here. The software industry has become so fixated on new specifications that it has lost sight of the fundamental goal: using XML to link software applications together. While some new specs that have been proposed are important and useful, others are too complex and still others will probably never be used, including some from Microsoft"""

SOAP author says enough specs already

Yup. Yup.