April 6, 2004
⇒ Black voodoo Python generator magic.Python has officially graduated from its simple, and easy to understand roots.
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(Aside programming, python) March 24, 2004
⇒ Magpy RSS Reader.Something about that name seems awfully familiar. Thinking about calling my fork of MySQL, ThynkSQL.
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(Aside magpie, python, rss) March 23, 2004
⇒ Switching from PHP to Zope.To be read
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(Aside php, python) March 20, 2004
⇒ Is there a better name then “agile” for languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, and Groovy?.How about ‘better’ languages.
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(Aside agile, groovy, perl, python, ruby) June 30, 2003
⇒ Chumpologica – an RSS feed combiner.To build a better Chump, with Python, FOAF and RSS
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(Aside aggregation, python, rdf, rss) Mark just released a version of rssparser that supports parsing attributes, with <admin:generatorAgent> as an example implementation. So when we start the next revolution of service enriched RSS feeds rssparser will be there as well.
Started using Straw yesterday. I’m very happy with it. Works great. Especially once I figured out how to get links to open in Mozilla instead of Galeon. And is much more scalable in an era of RSS everywhere. (see cvs2rss) The only change I really want is the ability to categorize feeds, and only see certain groups, because I already have a lot of feeds I track.
In lieu of this switch, I’m retiring the Tracking sidebar, if you use it, I can keep it available somewhere if you like, let me know. I’m replacing it with an MLP log like Anil’s instead. A form I’ve been finding very liberating today.
Do need to figure out how to work in the blogroll aspects.
Somedays apt-get is the most infuriating piece of software. I’ve got the Debian package for python2.2 installed, I want to uninstall the Debian python2.1, but apt-get won’t allow me to do that without installing libperl5.8. Excuse me? I need to upgrade to the latest perl to uninstall an old version of python? In other news, perl5.8 is finally in Debian 
I’m sitting here drawing a total blank. The plain white page of Nedit stares back at me, taunting.
How do I test for membership in a list using Perl? I think about the old writers trick, of just writing, even if you write “I do not know what to write” over and over. This does not work with coding. First its a syntax error. Second, Nedit will allow me to go on forever, filling page and page, I’ll never come to the end of the page, never reach that milestone, of having to stop, and turn the page, and examine how ridiculously my last 15 minutes were spent.
In Python I can ask: if ( target in list):
or I can speak about: for item in list:
In Perl…..I guess I say:
if ( grep { $target eq $_ } @list
Perl is my first language really, its what I reach for in the early hours of the morning, sleep deprivation setting in,
and the problem just damn well needs to be solved, but ‘ewwww’, that grep trick is ugly,
and not simply because its functional programming. So ugly in fact that my brain decided to spontaneiously
forget it.
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This blog is roughly a decade old, and at no point, including now, has it ever represented the opinion of any of my employers.
I tend to write about books, coffee, the Web, open source, collaboration technologies and XML.
I spend most of my days writing code, and occasionally fomenting dissent.
Currently Residing: New York
