Doing the heavy lifting with Python

A good example of using Python for the heavy lifting part of an application.

What version are you running?

"There are many aspects of the IT business that have been turned upside down the internet. One concept which is effectively being meaningless is the concept of a "version" in the sense of an application software package version number/name or an operating system version number/name." -- http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/60990/what-version-are-you-running?

Master Foo chews on a fork

"The cold winds of recessionary pressures were blowing around Pentementi Mountain as the two technologists made their way to Master Foo's cave near the summit. The WIFI signals had long disappeared from their netbook gadgets but text messaging still worked on their cellphones. Contact with the valley below helped them feel connected to the Twenty First, or was that the Twentieth?, Century." -- Master Foo chews on a fork

Norbert Mikula RIP

Sad news. Norbert Mikula has passed away. In the early days of XML, NXP was one of the first ever XML parsers. Back when the big names in the Java XML parser world where NXP, Lark, MSXML and Aelfred)

Hard wired, soft coded, confused

"Is it really sensible to try to soft code everywhere when, whether you like it or not, the host environment is going to make its own hard/soft configuration changes?" -- Hard wired, soft coded, confused

From Personal Computer to Impersonal Chameleon

Booting from something you carry around in your pocket. There is a trend there I think. A trend that could take the "personal" out of the PC box and into your pocket which, arguably, is where it belongs in this day and age : From Personal Computer to Impersonal Chameleon.

Testing - the pain, the power, the money

"The first big dirty secret of coding is that to do it well, you need to spend as much time coding around your core code as you spend, coding the core code itself." -- Testing - the pain, the power, the money