Saturday, April 26, 2003

Wiki testimony..not a positive one, but detailed. On the Python marketing list Laura Creighton elaborated on her view of Wikis. http://pythonology.org/pipermail/marketing-python/2003-April/004369.html I hope to enumerate these soon but can't this morning. They point out worthy problems. Zwiki currently has an effort out to bridge the mailing list & wiki gap.  How does that look in light of this? Laura doesn't mention a search engine.  Bloggers rely on it, and I think Wikizens also.  How does that fit into her email picture? Personal cruft: Not changing the subject of an email message when the topic is has definitely changed.  What's wrong with changing the subject line to be the specific focus of the message?  The subject is used title tag to an archive page will be used  by search engines for a more focused search. This morning I have the benefit of high speed internet. Man do I miss it. My productivity container doesn't. 11:09:58 AM    , comment [] More reasons Python is Agile: LOC != LOL 1. Lines of Code (LOC) is one thing, but Length of Lines is definitely another.  Phil points out a good example when extracting a number from a vector element.   Horizontal scrolling: Bad! 120 column green-bar: Obsolete!  Let ye who casts the first stone switch to a dynamically typed language! 2. The Memory Management Glossary is something you only reference when extending or optimizing your app with C or C++ --and you definitely don't need to memorize it!  Garbage Collection is a wonderful thing. (I wonder if the costly objects (Database connections, ...) issue in DotNet (and Java?) where one would like or need the ability for  manual override exists in Python...)   10:40:55 AM    , comment [] Twisted Graphics Besides a nifty logo, there's some gems lurking on the bottom of the Twisted Matrix Lab's screenshot page: "Haberdashery We also have an official background pattern. For T-Shirts and such, you can look at the Twisted CafePress store. " 9:56:02 AM    , comment [] Python News: Twisted Python. Code with a side of pickles, please.. (Forgive the redundancy, Radio may be dying on me, again...This post appeared in my RSS feed (yes, I aggregate myself :*} and recommend it) yet not on my site or the previous posts list. This version is edited. I'm not a historical purist.) ONLamp.com brings us news from Stephen Figgins regarding Twisted Python at PyCon 2003. Interesting insight. I hope it draws more people into the Python culture. I'll be waiting for a follow-up technical overview of Twisted. Show us some code! Yes, we need more docs. Bring them to us o great ORA! Peanut Butter & Jelly puns. Does one need any better reason than this to review Twisted?  I recall a friend saying "SOMEbody was having too much fun [when they named serialization "pickling"]".  My inner-coder-child reached up from the depths of my gradeschool TI-94 awakening and screamed out "Exactly!!  Isn't that GREAT?!"  My spelunking for the meaning of "pickle" in the Python docs was a much more rewarding trip than wondering if serialization was persisting an object in a binary like fashion over a single bit channel! 9:50:10 AM    , comment []

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