Jeremy Meyer and I put this together from start to finish in one afternoon, using puppets to show the basics of making JRuby calls into Java.

How to create Flex forms within HTML pages to easily achieve cross-browser and cross-platform functionality.

I have the demo version (first 7 chapters) of this up for anyone interested in trying it out.

Not only is this the first place that I look, it's a wonderful way to browse the language features and see what's new. It's also an excellent history of the language's development.

Languages as people representing themselves at a conference, arguing about which one is better.

I got a consulting query over the internet the other day; they were desperate for someone to do a particular project and it seemed like I might be able to help.

This is a single HTML page so that you can use your web browser's "find" function to quickly search through the book.

For all intents and purposes, Microsoft has infinite financial resources. But they create almost no new applications, and they had to seriously cut back on the features of Vista to get it out.

The basic tenet in podcasting is "Think About the Experience of your Audience." All these points are simply details of that one statement.

For over a year I've been coauthoring a book with someone who lives in another state, and we've tried various tools to pair-review and edit the document.

For his keynote at the 2007 Python Conference, Ivan Krstić, director of security and information architecture at the One Laptop per Child project, showed us how much of the project was written in Python. The most common question was "how do I get one?"

There's a demo including the PDF with all the introductory material and instructions including the *Everything is an Object* and *Operators* chapters and source code.

RSS seems clever close-up, if you ignore the internet traffic increase issues. But if you look at the real problem, RSS is a workaround that just supports the existing problem: anonymity.

Continuing the discussion of the GIL and parallel programming in Python.

Guido van Rossum published a reply to my article "Python 3K or Python 2.9."