May 21, 2002
Pub guide

What an excellent pub guide!

Combine with CurryPages, and all your evening planning needs are catered for.

Also check out the pulling guide. I follow the Nik and James technique myself.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 04:49 PM
Doh!

Oh dear!

Posted by Simon Brunning at 02:34 PM
Eclipse 2.0 soon

According to the release schedule for Eclipse 2.0, it will be released at the end of June.

We use Eclipse as our IDE for Java development. It is bloody good.

It is also going to form the basis of future versions of the WebSphere Development Tools for iSeries. RPG in Eclipse - I can't wait!

There are also Eclipse plug-ins for C# and Ruby - perhaps a Python plug-in is in progress? Can't find one.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 12:33 PM
Dilbert is at Google.

Google's logo is currently featuring Dilbert.

They often feature special logos.

I missed their April 1st announcment this year. Godd, but April 1st 2000 takes some beating!

(Via The Shifted Librarian)

Posted by Simon Brunning at 12:21 PM
Are All Languages Equivalent?

No!.

"If you want to trick a pointy-haired boss into letting you write software in Lisp, you could try telling him it's XML." Classic.

I don't think that Python is a Lisp clone, though. It steals borrows from loads of languages.

(Via Lambda the Ultimate)

Update 28 May 2002: Paul Prescod's reply, On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp. Oh, and Lisp isn't XML. Still a good line, though.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 12:05 PM
.NET to be patented?

Over on c.l.py, it has been suggested that Microsoft might patent .NET, C# and so forth, despite opening the standards.

Is this true? If so, what will happen to Mono?

Posted by Simon Brunning at 11:29 AM