Programming and politics

All of my recent excursions into Python convinced me it was time to try out Jython. I have had a great experiences with JRuby. It is definit...

I finished Core Python. My last post on it hits on a few random things towards the end of the book. The most interesting is threading in Py...

I love playing Guitar Hero. Whenever I feel like I am pretty good at the game, I just play with my wife Crystal and she puts me in my place....

It's been awhile since I did a post with pretty graphs and meaningless micro-benchmarks. I am using the latest version of JRuby, 1.1.3 o...

The Man has been keeping me down lately. Time for a laundry list of complaints about the city I live and work in. Licensure -- Last year I...

The title makes me want to go to Vegas ... No gambling, just a discussion on slotted classes in Python and in particular how to pickle and ...

Yeah, I'm a John Legend fan, but that's not the reference here. The reference is to Lift , the web application for Scala. Today IBM ...

I see 1 or maybe 2 movies a year. By seeing a movie, I mean going to a traditional movie theater to see a movie. This year I had to miss the...

Couldn't make it to Eclipse Day? You're in luck. Since it was at Google, it was recorded and is now on YouTube. Enjoy!

Today I finished the part three of a series of articles on the Google App Engine. Of course right now, GAE only supports Python. So I've...

Oh the drama in the Green Bay... So Brett Favre wants to play again next year. Green Bay does not want him to play. They are all too happy t...

Inspired by Python, here are a few tastes.

Gilly had some fun making this Friedman video:

It sure took me long enough, but I finally got around to writing about Grails . This article gives some introduction to Grails, but also tal...

My latest Core Python inspired post is about using repr() and pickle in Python. Oh and a few bits about JSON as well.

Not script-a-licious! I wrote an article on script.acu.lous and it is now online at developerWorks.

Congratulations to the Eclipse Foundation for releasing Ganymede today . As part of the festivities, Eclipse and Google collaborated on Ecli...

Today I taught a seminar on Ajax to the Bay Area chapter of the ACM . It was a lot of fun. The audience was great, asking lots and lots of e...

I mentioned some new books that I am reading. The publisher of those books gave me the opportunity to blog about them while I read them. I t...

Last week I wrote about the 'wallify' problem that was worked on at the BASE meeting. One thing that was mentioned there was that i...