A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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This is an absolutely brilliant summary of the virtues of PHP. The important point is that these virtues aren’t going away. By comparison this seems to miss the point. In 2020 we won’t be programming the web with an advanced Python framework (wonderful as python is). We’ll have something which does what PHP did for…
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Dynamic List is a browser-based outliner.
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A quick thought … working with a lot of Django and Pinax at the moment, I’m seeing a lot of use of Python’s varargs. Functions that just take *argv, **kwargs I find I don’t like this. I want to see argument lists as explicit as possible. I feel uncomfortable and a bit lost. I feel…
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Two links I need to read but haven’t got to yet. Martin Fowler on Illustrative Programming Dion Almaer on coding in more than 2-D.
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Nowdothis is awesome! (hat-tip @adrianh) Of course, if it becomes massively successful and famous I’ll be … kind of … you know … But I really do wish it well.
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My day-job means that I now have a github account. And I have to say, I am very impressed by it. I decided on bzr last year as my distributed source-control system, mainly because it felt so similar to svn and it was written in python. In comparison, git is still bloody confusing. But bzr…
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Spreadsheets are 30!
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Just created a ThoughtStorms page on ComputationalThinking
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How Languages Learn
Got any book recommendations?