Campbell: I did not add 45-min claim.

Mark is stuck building a VB6 project at the moment. I took the piss out of him for a while, but by now I'm feeling really sorry for him.

He's currently having problems with 'event cascading', whatever that is.

"Right, I'm going to delete and re-write all the routines which are giving me gyp," he's just said. Well, shouted, mostly.

Java Programmers Unite: Say NO To Python

Jokes apart, I don't think that increasing programmer productivity would increase unemployment, at least not in the long term. I think that part of the problem is that too many company boards have had their fingers burned by large IT projects delivering very poor ROIs. The more IT delivers value for money, the more people will be willing to spend.

At least, that's what I'd like to think. Perhaps we are all doomed.

WyPy implements a basic Wiki in 23 lines of the ugliest Python code I've ever seen. Clever, though, and it works fine.

Via the still-RSS-free Daily Python URL.