U.N orders Wonka to submit to Chocolate Factory Inspections
When we found evidence that Wonka was developing so-called 'everlasting gobstopper' technology—'the mother of all gobstoppers'—we knew it was time to act.
Via Neil Gaiman.
You're on a particularly useless cusp known as "being a bit of a nerd". Nobody really trusts what you say about computers, but at the same time, they keep asking you really annoying questions that they could answer for themselves if they just spent five minutes thinking about it. You also have to spend a lot of time not having a life in order to keep your slightly inadequate skills up to date.
Yup, that's me alright.
Find out how geeky you are with the Geek-o-meter.
71% way my result giving honest answers. It's pretty easy to go higher...
Update: Also:
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JSR-666: Programmability Enhancements.
Is this a conscious reworking of Python's PEP 666: Reject Foolish Indentation?
Via Charles Miller.
Marcus Nylander's VSS Plugin for Eclipse has been upgraded to to COM automation - it's much faster now.
Funnily enough, I've had to do some VSS automation myself, in Python. VSS's object model is a bit nasty, but it's easy enough to write an OO wrapper while clutching the documentation. Then you can use the wrapper, and forget all about the ugly stuff underneath.
I'll probably clean this VSS stuff up and post it at some point.
I'm no longer a python developer
A real shame, this. He's been a real contributer to Python. Possible his most high profile contribution is Python's new (at 2.0) unicode regular expression module, which I use every day. (Well, OK, most days.) But this is far from being his only contribution.
I don't see him much on c.l.py any more, either, which is a shame. He's helped me out in the past. I'm not surprised, though - the volume of postings on c.l.py is huge these days.
Oh, and if you are a Python developer and don't yet have The Python Standard Library, I recommend it. When using a new module for the first time, I find a simple example or two a much more effective quick start than the docs, good though they are, and Python Standard Library gives you exactly this.
RPG doesn't have anything like as powerful as Exception handling, but it is ironic that for many years the iSeries' scripting language, CL, has offered a more powerful error handling via its MONMSG command than RPG offered.
Well, RPG is finally being dragged kicking and screaming onto the eighties. Power of MONITOR Opcode shows you how to make use of RPG's new
Well, made me laugh, anyway.