Archive for January, 2008
31 Jan
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31 Jan
One of Sarah Mclachlan’s better moments.
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31 Jan
Best part is the ‘Mouse Click’.
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31 Jan
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31 Jan
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31 Jan
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27 Jan
Quote: The time taken to learn things isn’t as important as how useful they are once learned. -Ricky Clarkson
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27 Jan
He’s right. Love the Smalltalk refactoring info too; take that you Eclipse bigots!
Posted in General, Programming, Python by: howard
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26 Jan
Python iCalendar library. Parses and generates vCard and vCalendar files.
Posted in General, Programming, Python by: howard
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26 Jan
Python module (wrapper) for OpenSSL.
Posted in General, Programming, Python by: howard
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26 Jan
Call Lucene from Python. It uses JCC for one option. Nifty.
Posted in General, Programming, Python by: howard
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26 Jan
Python module to generate Python-callable C++ wrappers for Java functions. If you need to call Java from Python, this is a pretty slick way to do it.
Posted in C++, General, Java, Programming, Python by: howard
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24 Jan
My birthdate, in the Hebrew calendar. Go here to see it in Hebrew.
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22 Jan
The Green Lantern Oath: In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil’s might, Beware my power…Green Lantern’s light! -Hal Jordan/All Current Lanterns The kids love the Justice Leage Unlimited cartoon, especially the opening credits (“gotta dance” is the prelude to their crazed giddy Snoopy Dance). She, [...]
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22 Jan
Ten common Javascript functions.
Posted in General, Internet, Programming by: howard
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22 Jan
Handy: if (!window.console) { window.console = { log: function(){} }; } which makes console.log(foo’); easier to use than try { console.log(“foo”); } catch(err) {}
Posted in General, Internet, Programming by: howard
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22 Jan
Huge number of links for web technologies.
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22 Jan
Decodes and explains your useragentstring.
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22 Jan
How fascinating: The Sparta Public Library in Sparta, New Jersey, has purchased two Amazon Kindles for LOANING TO PATRONS. Trouble is, they immediately got 22 people who want to reserve them. The lending period will be one week. Here’s the cool part: Each patron who borrows it gets to buy one book from Amazon, and [...]
Posted in General, Kindle by: howard
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22 Jan
Steve’s post-MacWorld interview with the New York Times includes this gem: Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading. “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people [...]
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21 Jan
Yes, the “Previous Page” and “Back” buttons are different. Pretty simple actually — Previous Page is akin to PgUp (and NextPage is akin to PgDn), whereas Back is akin to ‘Back’, in the ‘history’ sense like a browser (and literally in the ‘experimental’ browser).
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