Friday, May 17, 2002

via Sean McGrath's A Python Based Production System for High Volume Electronic Publishing: "Python and XML are to my mind, a marriage made in heaven. No software aspect of this project took more than one man week to prototype and a team of three programmers - sometimes working continents apart - could pick up code, understand it and be moving forward making changes to it very quickly. Sure it is not fast. By writing it in, say C++ we could probably get the build time for each days debate to a matter of seconds. However it would have taken us many man weeks to write the code in C++." 8:58:25 PM    The Soapbox

Download MacNewsWire 1.0b6 for Mac OS X. It's freeware. The final version will also be freeware. 8:16:50 PM    The Soapbox