As Edd mentioned in his brilliant entry, IronPython was released as open source. Perhaps just as interesting is the fact that it seems that Jim Hugunin will be working at Microsoft:
“His charter: to work towards a production-ready IronPython, and more broadly to improve the state-of-the-art of dynamic languages on the CLR. The open source [...]
Today I decided to take lunch away from the office, alone. I picked up a sandwhich and went to Creve Coeur Lake. I think it helped re-energize me for the afternoon.
I spent the afternoon working on interface enhancements to support our Spam-filtering improvements for version 1.2 of the software that powers [...]
Stephanie posted a link to an article which sparked an interesting discussion about the value of books.
There is a lot of Truth and Beauty in books that simply does not come across as well in other media. When I watched the Lord of the Rings movies in the theatre, particularly The Two Towers and [...]
I downloaded Mobile Poker Trainer the other day. Unfortunately I couldn’t seem to download it off the web site from my phone, so I put it on my own apache server which I accessed using the WAP browser on my nokia 3510 phone. It didn’t work at first. Finally figured out I [...]
Thomas: My solution to the the differences in Unix tools across platforms is often to use Perl. In your example,
echo “kaka pipi” | perl -p -e ’s/\S/./g’
produces the correct output, and in my experience, Perl works the same whether I’m running it on Solaris, various Linux distributions, or OS X. After months [...]
Had an interesting weekend. Friday night I went to a happy hour with some of my former BJC coworkers, followed by karaoke at Carson’s, followed by Blues at BB’s, followed by playing poker at the Casino. I won $1,340 on one hand. No, we weren’t playing for that high of stakes. [...]
Personal: I drove myself to the office today for the first time in three weeks. It’s good to feel somewhat independent. Still can’t put weight on the foot, but I think it’s healing well and won’t require surgery.
Had a pretty good weekend. Escaped the house to the beer gardens for [...]
Update: No, I do not have a black heart. Yes, I do care about starving people and have donated time at soup kitchens and money to charities that feed the hungry. I live in a society and culture of excess. Food is cheap and abundant. Yet people are still starving in the [...]
