Zope opera
After watching a video comparing web frameworks that cast Zope (and Plone) in a very positive light, I decided to take a look at it. (more…)...
Month: April 2006
Emacs Poker
A few weekends ago, I had been reading about Lisp and decided that I should try to write something semi-interesting to cement my knowledge. So I fired up Emacs and started messing around and this is what came out of it....
SBCL and SLIME a no-go on Ubuntu
Just for the heck of it, I installed SBCL from a package. Worked fine. But then I tried to use it in SLIME (latest version from CVS). No go. (more…)...
Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp
Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp Lisp is not an acceptable LISP. Not for any value of Lisp. There's nothing magical about this, nothing partisan. If Lisp were acceptable, then we'd all be using it. Very interesting...
TiVo is on a roll
Wow, first TiVo renewed its contract with DirecTV. Now they've won $73 million in their lawsuit against EchoStar. It's been a good week for TiVo....
Python doctest
While perusing the Python tutorial, I came across a really nifty Python feature that I hadn't heard about before - namely the doctest module. It's quite ingenious. The doctest module provides a tool for scanning a module and...
Short introduction to UnCommon Web programming – Yikes!
UCW intro Holy crap - that's a lot of dependencies and a lot of work just to set it up for a simple tutorial. When I saw the title, I thought it might be a fun little tutorial to try, but when I saw what was involved...yikes, I...