If you’re in Beijing, know Python, have played around with Django, and want to roll up your sleeves and contribute some code to open source, then feel free to join as at the Exoweb office Saturday Dec 1st from 11:30 until 24:00 for the Django sprint. If you want to come, please post a comment to [...]

I’ve been having so much fun listening to songs and watching music videos by Jonathan Coluton, an ex-software developer gone Internet music artist, or “Internet star”. He originally made headlines with his “Thing a Week” project in which he would make and publish a song every week. Merlin Mann has a good interview...

I’ve been having so much fun listening to songs and watching music videos by Jonathan Coluton, an ex-software developer gone Internet music artist, or “Internet star”. He originally made headlines with his “Thing a Week” project in which he would make and publish a song every week. Merlin Mann has a good interview...

Richard noticed that Feedburner has been blocked in China. This is terrible news as a lot of blogs and podcasts are using feedburner! No wonder half my podcasts suddenly stopped working. Let me know if you find a work-around (besides using Tor for everything).

Richard noticed that Feedburner has been blocked in China. This is terrible news as a lot of blogs and podcasts are using feedburner! No wonder half my podcasts suddenly stopped working. Let me know if you find a work-around (besides using Tor for everything).

Warning: This is a rant. With wifi came the promise of being online (almost) anywhere, but due to incompetent or misdirected implementation and management, it’s pretty much a patchwork of extremely unreliable networks. My experience is that there’s a 30-40% chance of actually being able to get online at an access point. In the case...

Warning: This is a rant. With wifi came the promise of being online (almost) anywhere, but due to incompetent or misdirected implementation and management, it’s pretty much a patchwork of extremely unreliable networks. My experience is that there’s a 30-40% chance of actually being able to get online at an access point. In the case...

Love the move to make bytes immutable; makes perfect sense, and good to see you can still be 'agile' and tweak the roadmap when appropriate.Waiting in anticipation for 3.0 final :)

Arlo Belshee has done some experiments with "promiscuous pairing" and other methods to increase the efficiency of pair programming, see:http://stabell.org/2007/07/13/arlo-agile-experiment/At Exoweb, we've used code reviews for the last couple of years (using a plugin to Trac that allows us to review each change set), and have had fantastic...

Btw, fun pun intended. I know it's too early. :)

The point was that the common case should be for people to create genexps (in most cases it won't make a difference to the outcome of the algorithm, but will use less memory).Not including [] or () around generator expressions or list comprehensions seems a bit hackish syntactically; at the very least it's another special case people have to learn.

Sure, where's the PEP? :)

I really love list comprehensions, but the (later introduced) generator expressions are much more useful and should be encouraged.Unfortunately, list comprehensions got the best syntax using [], while generator expressions are using () which are already very overloaded as they are used in function calls etc.Since you can easily "fake" list...

I think Ruby's eating our lunch with respect to domain specific languages by offering blocks (and the ability to drop parentheses). Couldn't we do something like this:..def mycommand(*args, **kw) cb:......# this function requires a callback function called cb......# do something with args and kw......return cb() # call the callbackand to use...