My wife and I were in Barnes and Noble last night. Of course, the first place I go is the magazine rack to pick up the latest Linux Format issue, then over to the prgramming section to get a new computer book. I was completely torn between a number of different computer books, but finally [...]
Being a serious Firefox junkie, I was testing out a couple new extensions when a fellow coworker came by my desk and asked me what I was doing. He then asked what extensions I find useful, at which point I began showing off Spellbound. Immediately, he jumped out of his seat and couldn’t believe his [...]
Because learning a new language takes a little bit of time, I haven’t had much to blog about here. I would like to blog more often, but I feel that I need to get a hang of the language before I can venture too far into blogging about it. I woudn’t have much to blog [...]
Being new to Python and completely discovering the language has been quite the experience. I find it realy cool that it is whitespace dependant, and that indenting matters. This helps reduce alot of the “chatter” that is common in C/C++, Java, Perl, etc. This week, I decided, among other things, to write a game in [...]
A house contractor utilizes the best tools of his trade. As does a plumber, carpenter, mechanic and technician. So should developers. It is easy as a developer to get caught into using simple tools to get the job done. For example, when editing a web page, a simple text editor gets the job done just [...]
