The Cave

Interesting analysis why multithreading a GUI toolkit is an inherently flawed solution and why the ‘event queue’ model is so prevalent.

List of the various codenames used by all the J2SE revs, past, present and future.

Article by Sun summarizing 5.0 changes.

Sample code how to create a tabbed dialog (‘notebook’) using Tkinter.

More Pythonic goodness.

Concise example if you’re already familiar with the DOM.

Neat diagram showing the various forms of time and which functions convert what.

Sigh.

Old but (sadly) still relevant post on type systems and XML. A comment from one of the downstream responses: I would assert that W3C XML Schema is flawed because it is incomplete, because it does not contain a mechanism that allows it to be completed, and because it is so complex that it verges on [...]

Neat page comparing the W3C compliance of various Python XML modules.

“Santa has been outsourced. We had to do it. For the price of one Santa we got 3 guys from India. The elves have been outsourced, too, from China. Which is actually a good thing. Now we’ll all get electronics.”

A preview of Qt4 features. Nice.

This guy’s site has some of the handiest little applets including FTPServer, FTPWanderer (client) and several others. Pay $ for source code, but the utilities are functional, stable and have pretty clean and user interfaces.

PlanetPython.org is a neat site for Python users.

FASB has ruled. A good day for fiscal honesty, though probably less so for tech companies. Make of that what you will.

Slashdot article about the HP/Intel Itanium alliance is over. The usual Slashdot mix of informative and trolls. Some of the meatier chunks POWER does it right Smattering of news links PA-RISC, not Alpha HP’s future Personally I always thought Itanium was a bad idea — make the hardware simple and stupid (but fast) and leave [...]

An article on how to design REST protocols.

Using COM with Python. Sweet.

The top 20 software people in the world according to Tim Bray. But it’s definitely got gaps — what, no John Carmack, who’s probably done more for the 3D graphics industry than anyone else in the past decade? And Larry Wall? I like Python about as much inversely as I dislike Perl, but Larry’s been [...]

Cute.

This adds an entry to Firefox’s content menu (right-click). Handy, functional, and knows WordPress just fine. Seems to work well so far. Recommended.