Dec 23, 2002
“Everybody knows that that if [the United States] had concrete information, they would have put it on television all around the world before giving it to the inspection teams.”
I have found myself making this same argument over the past few days, in response to Hans Blix’s request … Read more
Dec 22, 2002
Canada NewsWire is reporting that, according to the Maclean’s 19th Annual Year-End Poll, 44% of Canadians would restrict Canada’s intake of Muslim immigrants. This disturbing statistic was part of a summary of the poll findings, which also stated that 60% [of Canadians] would … Read more
Dec 19, 2002
Bill Kearney has slapped together a page which helps construct a link to a Yahoo! Group’s RSS feed. The links it creates can be understood by several popular aggregators. I didn’t even know that Yahoo! Groups supported RSS.
Dec 18, 2002
Frank posted his review of Spirited Away last night, and I feel that I need to respond to the following comment:
Ironically, Ian and Vic walked out of there claiming to have found it incomprehensible. This astonishes me – this had the most coherent, albeit simple, plot of any … Read more
Dec 16, 2002
I’ve been using XPath and XQuery to parse my XML documents as of late and, wow, does it ever make parsing easier. For instance, suppose I wanted to collect elements which had a bar attribute of “baz”. Using The Mind Electric‘s Electric … Read more
When Apple announced the iPad, its detractors immediately denounced it, mostly citing it as underpowered and without a full-blown OS. More powerful tablets closely mimicking OS behaviour (mostly Windows) have been around for almost a decade, yet they’ve garnered little to no interest. Why haven’t those who feel the iPad is lacking not run out … Read more
In my over ten years as a developer, I’ve worked at over a half-dozen companies—some of them I’ve even quit before being laid-off. In the ones that I have quit I’ve noticed what could be termed as “employee rot” (or “Dead Sea Effect”). Smart employees come and go but it’s the not-so-smart ones who stay … Read more
I had no idea I lived in Chaplin Estates and not Forest Hill. Thanks to this map which squeezes the names of all Toronto neighbourhoods into their respective boundaries, now I know!
I’ve never had to worry too much about the size of my executables. Should that day come, this tutorial should give some insight as to how I can shave precious bytes. The code involved prints a number. The author starts with C, with the resulting executable at just under 4K, to assembler with heavy manipulation … Read more
This is a nice writeup by Armin Ronacher on the pros and cons of three Python web “frameworks”, namely WebOb, Werkzeug and Django, focussing on their request and response objects. The real gems are in the comments, with a discussion centered around WSGI.