July 16, 2002
Generator-based state machines

Generator-based state machines is another of Dave Mertz's articles about generators and iterators.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 05:00 PM
Python Eclipse

Superb! Gerhard Kalab has started work on a Python plugin for Eclipse!

Early days yet, mind you, but excellent news nevertheless.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 04:54 PM
The 2002 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest awards

It was a dark and stormy night.

The blood dripped from his nose like hot grease from a roasting bratwurst pierced with a fork except that grease isn't red and the blood wasn't that hot and it wasn't a fork that poked him in the nose but there was a faint aroma of nutmeg in the air and it is of noses we speak not to mention that if you looked at it in the right profile, his nose did sort of look like a sausage.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 03:08 PM
Measuring performance

Joel reviews Robert D. Austin's Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. Interesting for managers of any knowledge workers, not just Software developers.

See also David Aaronovitch's We all end up losing if we play the blame game.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 02:50 PM