One thing I hate about not being able to keep as close an eye on the Python community is the lack of Ian Bicking: Actually "merging" the two is probably unlikely. It's the kind of weird political maneuver that open source projects don't really do, unless they are part of weird "foundations" and have "managers" and stuff like that -- it's too...

One thing I hate about not being able to keep as close an eye on the Python community is the lack of Ian Bicking: Actually "merging" the two is probably unlikely. It's the kind of weird political maneuver that open source projects don't really do, unless they are part of weird "foundations" and have "managers" and stuff like that -- it's too...

Tim said it: WS-*? In the real world, it���s about being able to interoperate with WCF, and while that���s a worthwhile thing, that���s all it���s about. It���s not like HTTP or TCP/IP, truly interoperable frameworks, it���s like DCOM; the piece of Windows��� network-facing surface that Microsoft would like you to code to. For now, anyhow;...

Tim said it: WS-*? In the real world, it���s about being able to interoperate with WCF, and while that���s a worthwhile thing, that���s all it���s about. It���s not like HTTP or TCP/IP, truly interoperable frameworks, it���s like DCOM; the piece of Windows��� network-facing surface that Microsoft would like you to code to. For now, anyhow;...

For a really long time now I've wanted to get my development related projects, essays, and other ramblings into a more coherent place on the web. At the same time, I've been thinking a lot about this "movement" (for lack of a better word) that I've grown a small part of that is simplifying, humanizing, and opening up IT.There's a significant...

For a really long time now I've wanted to get my development related projects, essays, and other ramblings into a more coherent place on the web. At the same time, I've been thinking a lot about this "movement" (for lack of a better word) that I've grown a small part of that is simplifying, humanizing, and opening up IT.There's a significant...

Mr. McGrath is looking for a few good docheads (oxymoron, <ducks>) for an upcoming project. Experience in working with massive amounts of content a must, yadda yadda yadda.. But here's why I love Sean: he doesn't hire people (yes, docheads are people too) without the following qualification: If you cannot think of 3 good reasons why...

There's been a lot of good discussion around Udell's End HTTP abuse article. We need to get this figured out because it's almost embarrassing to be an advocate of standard approaches to building web applications when something as fundamental as the correct use of HTTP GET is butchered so often. Unfortunately, misuse of HTTP GET is just the tip...

Jon was a Computer Science major at Ohio State University taking a course in artificial intelligence. The professor had set up an interesting group project where each student was responsible for writing an insect program that would be matched against all the other student's insect programs in a really cool network based insect war simulation...

Jon was a Computer Science major at Ohio State University taking a course in artificial intelligence. The professor had set up an interesting group project where each student was responsible for writing an insect program that would be matched against all the other student's insect programs in a really cool network based insect war simulation...

I'm catching up on the happenings of PyCon and thought this IronPython keynote summary was interesting: The news from this morning's keynote is: IronPython released (at last). The running joke in Jim Hugunin's talk was pretending that it had only been two months since he joined Microsoft. In fact, it took about eight months to work out how to...

I'm catching up on the happenings of PyCon and thought this IronPython keynote summary was interesting: The news from this morning's keynote is: IronPython released (at last). The running joke in Jim Hugunin's talk was pretending that it had only been two months since he joined Microsoft. In fact, it took about eight months to work out how to...

Mark Baker brings up an important aspect of the WS-* vs. REST situation that I've been hoping to speak about myself: Yes, absolutey, we'll need the capabilities that the WS-* stack provides (for the most part). But do we need the WS-* stack itself to provide those capabilities? I'm certainly all for trying to reuse existing specs where that...

Mark Baker brings up an important aspect of the WS-* vs. REST situation that I've been hoping to speak about myself: Yes, absolutey, we'll need the capabilities that the WS-* stack provides (for the most part). But do we need the WS-* stack itself to provide those capabilities? I'm certainly all for trying to reuse existing specs where that...

Kid 0.6 is available.This is a feature release with some pretty important enhancements including Template Inheritence, Match Templates (kind of like XSLT's), cElementTree support, and a refined Python API. Quite a bit of time was spent on the documentation as well. The Release Notes have more information on everything that has changed.Kid is an...