Second Python Lecture Now on the Web
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006The second revised lecture on Python for Software Carpentry is now on the web. As always, comments and corrections are welcome.
Archive for January, 2006
The second revised lecture on Python for Software Carpentry is now on the web. As always, comments and corrections are welcome.
George Cukor, Hugo Weaving, and Gene Kelly
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006According to MyHeritage.com's facial recognition software, the three celebrities I resemble most are the director George Cukor, the actor Hugo Weaving (OK, I can live with that), and the dancer Gene Kelly. Numbers 4, 5, and 6 are Kevin Mitnick, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Caine; make of it what ...
Things You (Don’t Have To) Learn the Hard Way #1782937
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006Adam Goucher has blogged a piece on how to set up hardware for a testing lab. Now you don't have to reinvent these wheels...
.NET Debugging Visualizers
Monday, January 16th, 2006In last year's piece on extensible programming systems, I said that the biggest obstacle higher-level programming tools face is the lack of decent debuggers for them. Anyone who has wrestled with a broken thousand-line Makefile, or a complex Apache or Tomcat configuration, knows the problem: you write at this ...
Dream, Code, Submit, Win
Sunday, January 15th, 2006Enter the eBay Challenge today! Win stuff! Become rich, famous, and popular (well, one out of three)! Watch from the front row as post-modern programming turns into the web version of the Gong Show!
Intro Python Lecture Available
Sunday, January 15th, 2006The first Software Carpentry lecture on Python has been revised, and is up on the web. Comments and criticisms are very welcome.
Eating Our Own Burritos
Friday, January 13th, 2006A new version of DrProject went live on Pyre this afternoon. If nothing serious shows up in the next 24 hours, we'll cut the main installation over. It's leaner, cleaner, tastes better, and has fewer calories---I'm very excited, and very pleased with how quickly Chris, Jason, Sean, and ...
Build Lecture Is Up
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006The revised lecture on Make is now up for comments and feedback. Still no diagrams, I'm afraid...
Intelligent Laundry Solutions
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006Via Mike Gunderloy, filed under "surreal but true": a web-based system that will call your cell phone when your laundry is done.
Two More Revised Software Carpentry Lectures
Monday, January 9th, 2006I have revised the second shell lecture and the lecture on version control for the Software Carpentry course, and added the necessary glossary definitions. As always, comments are greatly appreciated.