http://marc-abramowitz.com Rocking the blogosphere Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:40:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spotted at http://www.holub.com/: "Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software." -Caspers Jones http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/06/06/software-development-quote-of-the-day/ freshmeat.net: Project details for Extended Python Debugger More complete than pdb.py. Supports a "restart" command, disassembly, stack traces that give better information for exec statements, and stepping over "defs". Tries to follow gdb's commands unless there is good reason not to. (tags: python debug) http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/05/31/links-for-2008-05-31/ Welcome to OpenC++ OpenC++ is C++ frontend library (lexer+parser+DOM/MOP) and source-to-source translator. OpenC++ enables development of C++ language tools, extensions, domain specific compiler optimizations and runtime metaobject protocols. (tags: c++ parser) http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/05/28/links-for-2008-05-28/ Linuxart » Blog Archive » Super-useful inputrc (tags: bash inputrc) http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/05/24/links-for-2008-05-24/ Today's Python discovery: Python doesn't have the C style ?: ternary operator (e.g.: cond ? valueIfTrue : valueIfFalse). But as of Python 2.5 it has a ternary operator with its own syntax: value_when_true if condition else value_when_false For example: >>> 'a' if 1 == 1 else 'b' 'a' >>> 'a' if 1 == 0 else 'b' 'b' This ... http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/05/18/python-ternary-operator/ A recent B of A commercial has a female acoustic singer/songwriter song, which sounds very similar to Shawn Colvin to me, but alas, it's not Shawn Colvin. It's "Merry-Go-Round" by Antje Duvekot http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/05/10/song-from-the-bank-of-america-commercial/ Macworld | First Look: VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 (tags: vmware fusion macosx) http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/05/09/links-for-2008-05-09/ I wonder if the manufacturers of this have heard of the term "pole smoking": http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/04/30/pole-smoking/ C++ Gotchas: Avoiding Common Problems in Coding and Design - (tags: C++) http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/04/29/links-for-2008-04-29/ Linkers and Loaders (tags: linker programming book) http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2008/04/28/links-for-2008-04-28/