Technologists Plus Social Scientists Equals What?

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Barbelith needs technologists and
scientists...

Barbelith needs technologists and
scientists... 04/15/2005 10:05 AM

I run an online community called Barbelith. Or to put that another way, I maintain the software and the community - for the most part - runs itself. This community doesn't have an over-arching mission or subject that everyone talks about - although there are sections on philosophy, science, mysticism, politics, literature (and many more). But the attitude and approach is the most important thing about the board - it endeavours (and in places succeeds) in being a place where you can have some of the highest quality discussions online with people who are prepared to engage and interrogate without being insulting. Members of the board tend towards the left or towards libertarianism, tend towards atheism or mysticism and are a real mix of creative individuals - from university lecturers, psychologists, artists, screen-writers, novelists... I think it gets its value from having such a lot of different perspectives able to work and engage with each other - and I like the fact that the various forums within it have incredibly distinct atmospheres while still allowing people to cross-polonate and move between its various areas. That's not to say it's perfect, by any means. Not every conversation goes brilliantly and not every thread is as engaging and thorough. But when it's good, it's really really good.

One area of the board that I really think could do with more rigor and more enthusiasm is around the area of science and technology. The culture is a little too heavily weighted towards philosophers, social scientists and humanities graduates at the moment, and I think it could really benefit from having other perspectives and knowledge of the kinds of innovations and developments that you can read about in publications like New Scientist or on Slashdot or Boing Boing, Pasta and Vinegar or We Make Money Not Art.

So I'm putting out a call for renaissance geeks, scientists, webloggers and technologists with a wide range of interests to come and join our little community. I'm looking for a group of twenty or thirty people who could really take hold of the Laboratory forum and push it in exciting areas - and who think they could use the extraordinary enthusiasm and multiplicity of perspectives from the rest of the board as personal inspiration.

The board's membership at the moment is highly limited and pretty much invitation-only, so if you're interested in joining then let me know by e-mail - my address as ever is tom@ and then plasticbag.org. If you could put in a few lines about the work you do and about your interest in science and technology that will make everything easier (and I'm afraid I really need people to have work or university or personal domain-name-based e-mail addresses - no gmail or hotmail ones will work). And as soon as I've got a decent number of people, I'll send out an invitiation to all of you at once.

If you are not a technologist or scientist and still want to join then don't despair. There is another approach to getting on the board at the moment as outlined in this thread: The practical facts about our new system for membership 'by invitation only'. I'm particularly keen to see people interested in art, design and fashion join up along with young film-makers and - as ever - political activists / indymedia types. But my personal preferences aren't going to stop you joining. That stuff's up to the rest of em.

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Recruitment technologists & law firm
launch package

Recruitment technologists & law firm
launch package 11/10/2003 11:11 PM
Online Recruitment Nov 10 2003 2:46PM ET

While Nathan Slept, What Rich, Powerful
Technologists Know About Their Customers

While Nathan Slept, What Rich, Powerful
Technologists Know About Their Customers 07/01/2002 08:28 AM
"(...) the first paradox of software development: users are not software designers, nor are software engineers users."

K2 Plus 3 Equals 1

K2 Plus 3 Equals 1 06/16/2004 03:08 PM
The sports equipment maker continues its growth-by-acquisition strategy.

Internet2 Plus P2P Equals...

Internet2 Plus P2P Equals... 04/30/2004 11:57 AM

Self-help equals self-harm?

Self-help equals self-harm? 12/02/2003 03:10 AM
Self-he lp equals self-harm? Are self-help books harmful rather than helpful? This article argues that dissatisfaction with one's abilities and achievements will not not be helped by affirmations of self-worth. Nor will we succeed in coping with the bitter feelings for those who have wronged us by practing the "anger therapy" of slamming a punching bag. [More Inside]

When Zero Equals Many in Windows XP

When Zero Equals Many in Windows XP 06/04/2004 09:11 AM
Wired News looks into Windows XP's dropped Wi-Fi connection problem: Daniel Terdiman tries to dig for the bodies in his search for why Windows XP drops Wi-Fi network connections inexplicably and often shows them as still active. Microsoft claims there's no systematic problem, but it's clear from reading any forum in which Wi-Fi is discussed--such as the DSLReports.com site--that this is a frequent issue. My solution, provided to me by a vendor about two years ago, of restarting Wireless Zero Configuration is explained in the article. This has solved 99 percent of my Windows XP Wi-Fi problems, but it's nestled so deeply that it's baffling. I've felt for a while that Microsoft should have a top-level interface to WZC because when it stops running, the user has no idea that anything's afoot until they drill down, down, down, and see that the setting reads "not running."...

Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)

Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis) 06/25/2004 10:06 AM
Ziff Davis - Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

"Brown Equals Terrorist"

"Brown Equals Terrorist" 07/11/2004 04:41 AM

Me minus Zoloft equals what?

Me minus Zoloft equals what? 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
After seven years on meds, my therapist says I'm stable. Does that mean I'm cured?

When Preservation Equals Demolition

When Preservation Equals Demolition 03/30/2005 11:31 PM
For years preservationists battled with developers over the Century Building until it was razed in February to make way for a garage.

Brown Equals Terroist

Brown Equals Terroist 07/09/2004 01:45 PM
Brown Equals Terroist - the story of a photography student who refuses to provide his ID to a security officer, and is swiftly confronted by Homeland Security. His ongoing struggle with the event is chronicled in the related blog.

In N.C., technology equals prosperity

In N.C., technology equals prosperity 04/20/2004 07:30 PM
This year's North Carolina Senate race pits Rep. Richard Burr -- a conservative Republican advocate for telecommunications and biotech -- against moderate Democrat Erskine Bowles -- an investment banker with tech industry ties who was President Clinton's chief of staff. Job losses in a tech-friendly region are a top concern for state voters.

Cricket: Warne equals record

Cricket: Warne equals record 07/13/2004 03:11 AM
Shane Warne takes his 527th Test wicket but Sri Lanka hang on for a draw against Australia in Cairns.

Cricket: Murali equals record

Cricket: Murali equals record 05/06/2004 10:01 AM
Muttiah Muralitharan equals the Test bowling record by taking his 519th wicket against Zimbabwe.

Paintball Equals Tragedy Plus Time

Paintball Equals Tragedy Plus Time 12/13/2003 01:26 AM
Columbine Paintball offers a chance for individuals and groups to re-enact the school massacre with paint in place of precious life-giving fluids. "Come and shoot your friends and family members in remembrance." (12-13)

SP2 Plus Athlon 64 Plus DVD Decoder
Equals Glitch

SP2 Plus Athlon 64 Plus DVD Decoder
Equals Glitch 08/27/2004 02:08 PM
Intalling Microsoft Windows XP SP2 on top of an AMD Athlon 64 processor running a popular DVD decoder may cause a loop where the PC perpetually restarts, accoridng to Microsoft.

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features 08/13/2004 12:47 PM
eTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing social networking, online dating, and event planning features. Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members, as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]

Social Issues Surround Social Software

Social Issues Surround Social Software 06/25/2004 09:01 AM
Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

Camcorder plus Web equals high video
potential

Camcorder plus Web equals high video
potential 05/08/2004 06:30 AM
Chicago Tribune May 8 2004 10:48AM GMT

Jail suicide figure equals record

Jail suicide figure equals record 12/31/2004 05:13 AM
Home Office figures show 95 jail inmates in England and Wales killed themselves this year.

Never Equals A Year And A Half For Opera
On Microsoft

Never Equals A Year And A Half For Opera
On Microsoft 08/31/2004 11:02 PM
The Feature Sep 1 2004 2:44AM GMT

Kids Plus Rocks Equals 120,000 Angry
Bees (Reuters)

Kids Plus Rocks Equals 120,000 Angry
Bees (Reuters) 08/16/2004 10:36 AM
Reuters - Kids throwing rocks stirred up more trouble than they bargained for when they dislodged a swarm of bees from an enormous hive built in the wall of a Southern California apartment building, authorities said on Friday.

Weak Spam Laws Plus No Enforcement
Equals Waste Of Time

Weak Spam Laws Plus No Enforcement
Equals Waste Of Time 04/16/2004 11:32 AM
Over in the UK, where they passed their own weak anti-spam law last year (saying it was okay to spam businesses) it turns out things are worse than they seem - as the law is only window dressing for a year or more. The authorities charged with enforcing the law are saying they don't have the necessary resources to actually enforce the law, and probably won't get around to do anything until next year. So, spammers in the UK have just been given notice to... keep on spamming.

The Daily Whim: MT Plus Comment Spam
Equals Dead Site

The Daily Whim: MT Plus Comment Spam
Equals Dead Site 12/29/2004 07:42 AM
The Daily Whim: MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site .. turning off their users’ Moveable Type weblogs .. Reid’s excellent posting .. offers an example .. photodude .. of

photodude.com/article/2592/mt-plus-comment-spam-equals-dead-site< br />track this site | 7 links

UK Indie Labels Claim Apple's Offer
Equals Commercial Suicide

UK Indie Labels Claim Apple's Offer
Equals Commercial Suicide 06/15/2004 11:49 AM
While Apple continues to expand their iTunes offering to Europe, many of the larger independent labels in the UK and France have decided not to participate, calling the offer Apple made them "commercial suicide." They claim that Apple is trying to bully them, using its position as the dominant downloadable music retailer to force the smaller labels into accepting a deal that gives them much less than their major label colleagues. Of course, they don't detail exactly what was offered, so it's tough to tell which side (and it certainly could be both) is really being greedy here.

LaCie Bigger Disk: Four Drives In One
ENclosure Equals Massive Capacity

LaCie Bigger Disk: Four Drives In One
ENclosure Equals Massive Capacity 05/19/2004 10:39 AM
If you need one huge volume to organize your data, the LaCie Bigger Disk is a clean, simple solution. By Kristina De Nike, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Social people don't need social
networking

Social people don't need social
networking 12/14/2003 09:54 PM
Kevin Werbach points out that social networking sites like LinkedIn and Tribe and so forth have very little to offer highly connected people like Esther Dyson, who would nevertheless be a real asset to the network:

Esther and Pierre don't need LinkedIn to reach pretty much anyone they want to contact. Yet there are a whole lot of folks who want to reach them, and don't have a personal connection to do so. So the service worsens their email overload with little corresponding benefit.

Link

Social Applications For Social Devices

Social Applications For Social Devices 07/13/2004 01:53 AM
The mobile phone, by its very nature is a "social" device. It's designed to help connect you to someone else. While most of the early efforts to create "mobile data" have come from a broadcast mindset (delivery produced content to an audience), it looks like some are finally realizing that mobile data apps need to be social to really catch on. If they're not making use of the mobile phone for what it's good for, then it's unlikely to get too much attention. MIT's Tech Review has a good overview of a variety of different "social" projects related to mobile devices, from the ever popular "Dodgeball" mobile social networking application to Fluidtime's dorm room washing machine SMS scheduler (and negotiator, should you find out you need the machine now and someone else has it booked). These are the types of applications that really are the future of mobile phones -- and not the ability to watch the latest reality TV series on your phone or to receive a marketing message from Disney.

Market share for Firefox equals or tops
IE on Boing Boing

Market share for Firefox equals or tops
IE on Boing Boing 03/14/2005 05:05 PM
If it hasn't been done already, somebody should create a page of links showing Firefox share for key web sites. It would show it catching up to and passing IE across a variety of sites popular with the "digitally aware". Will it cross the chasm to the mass market?...

Dedicated SMS equals Dedicated Listeners

Dedicated SMS equals Dedicated Listeners 06/10/2004 03:18 AM
Kawin teams up with Netinformer to provide SMS packages to radio industry. This technology will allow free text messageing to listeners which will increase participation exponentially. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs. 09/15/2004 02:13 AM
eTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine integrates online dating with social networking, event planning & management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Rat Lab - Where All the Mad Scientists
Go

Rat Lab - Where All the Mad Scientists
Go 04/04/2005 06:51 AM
Rat Lab - Where All the Mad Scientists Go
http://www.ratlab.co.uk/

Ratlab is a non-profit website that was created to spread a little science love to pretty much anyone who will listen. The site design and most of the content is by Kat, a 25 year old Microbiology PhD student who really should be reading research papers instead of playing on the net. The future plan for Ratlab is to include more content from other young scientists. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

"Non-American scientists"

"Non-American scientists" 06/20/2004 08:29 PM

Supercomputing Scientists

Supercomputing Scientists 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
�When noted biologist David Botstein was lured from Stanford University to head the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, he had his choice of computing systems,� writes Matthew Herper for Forbes.com. �But Botstein says he outfitted the center almost soup to nuts with Apple computers and servers, which are used for everything from desktop applications to comparing lengths of genetic code. By eschewing the more expensive workstations that high-tech biologists have come to rely on, he says he has also cut down on the cost of maintaining his number-crunching machines.� [Jan 12]

After Packing M&M's Together, Scientists
Like What They See

After Packing M&M's Together, Scientists
Like What They See 02/13/2004 02:03 AM
Scientists are reporting that M&M's pack more tightly in your mouth than gumballs, a discovery that could lead to a better understanding of glass.

Too Few American Scientists? Maybe Not

Too Few American Scientists? Maybe Not 07/10/2004 01:23 PM

After Packing M&M�s Together,
Scientists Like What They See

After Packing M&M�s Together,
Scientists Like What They See 02/14/2004 02:37 PM
On the packing of M&amp;Ms into a space .. very good packing density .. NY Times

nytimes.com/2004/02/13/science/13MATH.html
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Scientists dig for MRSA treatment

Scientists dig for MRSA treatment 04/15/2005 04:45 AM
Researchers in Swansea launch a project to find new antibiotics capable of treating infections like MRSA.
Grok Description matches for Technologists Plus Social Scientists Equals What?
GrokA matches for Technologists Plus Social Scientists Equals What?

NetworkX

NetworkX 04/11/2005 02:33 PM
NetworkX initial release, NX-0.2

NetworkX 0.2 (Default branch)

NetworkX 0.2 (Default branch) 04/11/2005 05:13 PM
NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks. The potential audience includes mathematicians, physicists, biologists, computer scientists, and social scientists.

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Three

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Three 06/30/2004 07:31 PM
In this month's Python and XML column Uche Ogbuji examines the namespace support in ElementTree, PyRXPU, and libxml.

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Two

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Two 05/13/2004 07:55 PM
In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji continues his tour of XML namespaces support in Python tools, focusing this time on 4Suite.

Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python
2.2

Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python
2.2 06/08/2004 11:18 PM

We have a home-grown templating system at work, which I intend to dedicate an entry to some time in the future. We originally wrote it in Python 2.2, but upgraded to Python 2.3 a while ago and have since been evolving our code in that environment. Today I found a need to load the most recent version of our templating system on to a small, long neglected application that had been running the original version ever since it had enough features to be usable.

Unfortunately, this application was running on a server that only had Python 2.2. Installing Python 2.3 would have been somewhat more painful here than on other servers we run for reasons I won't go in to, so I decided to have a go at getting our current code to run under the older Python version.

In the end, I only had to make three minor changes, all at the top of the file in question.

1. I added from __future__ import generators as the very first line of the file. We use generators (with the yield statement) in a few places - this feature was only properly added in Python 2.3, but was made available in Python 2.2 as a "future enhancement" through the aforementioned obscure import.

2. I added True, False = 1, 0 on the next line down. Surprisingly, Python 2.2 had no support for a boolean type and instead used a test for non-zero instead. The above line defines constants that behave enough like Python 2.3's True and False to avoid any problems.

3. I defined an enumerate function, which was introduced for real in Python 2.3. Here's the code I used:

   
   def enumerate(obj):
       for i, item in zip(range(len(obj)), obj):
           yield i, item 
   

All in all it only took around ten minutes to put the above together, after which the script worked just fine. It was interesting to see how our code had grown to rely on Python 2.3 features without us realising it.

Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g

Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
This is a new "trend" that I am seeing amongst some of the blogs I follow: People have started reading their keyword logs and begun answering the questions that their visitors obvisouly have. Mind you, some of the questions that...

Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog

Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
0-Click Shopping(tm), using Amazon's Web Services .. Automatic wishlist purchases with Amazon's API .. Make your own wishes come true, once

decafbad.com/blog/2004/06/16/wishofthemonthclub1
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Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g)

Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g) 08/20/2004 06:41 AM
ysearchblog commentators .. background information .. some background info .. weitere Details .. Jeremy Z ..

jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002431.html
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Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year!

Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year! 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing pal Scott Beale informs us that our blog just won Group Weblog of the Year at the Bloggies. OMG! What a huge honor! Thank you, Bloggies. We honestly didn't expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful. There were many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in their honor: check 'em all out. On behalf of my blog-mates Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, and David Pescovitz; our wise "band manager" John Battelle; our sysadmin par excellence Ken Snider; and the rest of the team and extended family that makes Boing Boing possible -- a humble thank you. But most of all, we are grateful to you, our readers, for wasting otherwise productive time on our collective scrapbook of "wonderful things," and for pointing us to even more of those wonderful and undiscovered things each day. We're really sorry that we couldn't make it to SXSW in person to accept the award, but we hope you'll join us in celebrating in person tomorrow at ETCON ( all five of us will be in the same place for the first time). Boing Boing sprouted online a little over five years ago, from paper zine roots planted by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. It is a privilege to blog for you. With you, we look forward to another adventurous year of link-discuss to come. Link

Update: Holy crap! Reader Nathaneal Heasley sez, "Not only did BB win best group ‘blog, it won “blog of the year/best weblog overall” – congratulations!" For those keeping track, this is the second year in a row Boing Boing has received these two awards: Link to 2004, Link to 2005. Man. We're speechless, and overwhelmed by your generosity.

The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often

The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often 12/30/2003 01:34 AM
http://www.blogherald.com/ Yup, that's it.......news about......blogs.......

Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g.

Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g. 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up with your blog .. Dear Blogger Letter .. David Weinberger

hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004138.html
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Joho the Blog: Video bl0g

Joho the Blog: Video bl0g 08/01/2004 05:01 PM
video blog .. vlog

hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002909.html
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Python 2.3.3

Python 2.3.3 12/30/2003 05:13 PM
A high-level scripting language.

Another look at PHP and Python

Another look at PHP and Python 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Postscript: Some people have got the impression from this article that I am moving away from PHP. That is far from the truth. I will continue to use PHP extensively today, tomorrow and for the forseeable future.

I find Python harder than PHP.

It could be because we are programming multi-threaded networked servers in Python, and that could be inherently harder than coding dynamic web-sites. Another reason could be lack of familiarity with Python. For example, I couldn't find the equivalent of htmlspecialchars and other functions, so i had to roll my own.

Despite all these issues, we are continuing to develop this in Python because (AFAIK) PHP does not have stable networking frameworks.

So what do I like about Python?

- Neat Syntax

The use of indentation for compound statements discourages deep nesting, and thus more modular code.

- More Safety Checks

In PHP, when you search using a regular expression, an associative array is returned. In Python, a typed object, "match" is returned when a regular expression search is performed, and not a generic dictionary. You cannot perform arithmetic on strings, an explicit cast is required; neither can you concatenate numbers with strings, explicit typecasts are needed.

- Supports Multi-Threaded Apps

There exists a global lock in Python that prevents multi-threading from working effectively on multiple processors - nevertheless Python has reasonable thread support and allows me to develop reasonably responsive servers.

- Python's Compiler is Standard

Python has a standard compiler and byte-code format. There is no such standard in the PHP world, and most ISP's don't support Zend or Turck MMCache encoded PHP. Better still, a debugger is included in the package too.

- Python Fully Supports Unicode

Python 2.0 and later has full support for unicode. For example to convert big5 to unicode is the simple:

    unicode_str = unicode(tw_chinese_string, 'big5')

In contrast, see how complicated it is to perform double-byte to unicode conversions in PHP (see User Notes).

The only issue i had with the unicode support is that it doesn't come with a complete set of double-byte decoders (eg. big5, gb). After a 20 minute google search, i found this set of python cjk decoders.

And what I dislike about Python

- Python Is Not Rapid Enough?

I think that PHP is a better tool for rapid application development, especially for web-sites. Minor type issues are handled for you transparently in PHP. In Python, once a variable is set, stricter type-checking is performed on most operations.

So you can argue that Python is safer. But PHP coding is definitely more rapid.

Another thing i dislike is that Python's import/load facility does not check .py file modification dates. If i modify a .py file, Python's run-time environment will not recompile it until i restart Python, or perform a reload manually from the command-line interpreter.

- Database Access

Python does not have official database drivers, and you have to select and download these drivers yourself. It's easy to get it wrong. For example, only after coding the adodb_odbc module using PythonWin odbc extension did i realize how awful PythonWin odbc was. I then found the mxODBC extension - unfortunately the mxODBC requires commercial licensing ($75 per CPU).

- Python is Not That Popular

Popularity is relative. There are lots of Python programmers - but there are perhaps 3 times more PHP programmers than Python ones. In Malaysia, the ratio of PHP to Python programmers is probably much worse (10:1?). And there are many training centers offering PHP courses. AFAIK, there are no centers in Malaysia offering Python training. A quick search in monster.com reveals the following (numbers might change over time):

PHP: 131 jobs
http://jobsearch.monster.com/jobsearch.asp?q=php&re=0&sort=rv&tm=&fn=6 60&vw=b&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863

Python: 41 jobs
http://jobsearch.monster.com/jobsearch.asp?q=python&re=0&sort=rv&t m=&fn=660&vw=b&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863

MPY (MPi for pYthon)

MPY (MPi for pYthon) 06/26/2004 05:20 PM
MPY Version 0.1 Released

Python-SIP 4.0

Python-SIP 4.0 06/23/2004 12:48 PM
A tool to generate Python bindings from C++ code.

XML with Xen and with Python

XML with Xen and with Python 12/19/2004 03:53 PM
Here is a comment on the paper "Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles" by Erik Meijer et al. Perhaps interesting for XML programmers.

Python-SIP 3.9

Python-SIP 3.9 12/08/2003 04:42 PM
A tool to generate Python bindings from C++ code.

Python-SIP 4.1.1

Python-SIP 4.1.1 09/24/2004 03:30 PM
A tool to generate Python bindings from C++ code.

Python-SIP 4.0.1

Python-SIP 4.0.1 07/06/2004 06:45 AM
A tool to generate Python bindings from C++ code.

Python 2.3

Python 2.3 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Python 2.3 was released yesterday... and not a moment too soon. I was just swearing under my breath about this sort of nonsense:

>>> cosmos = technorati.cosmos('http://diveintomark.org/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "technorati.py", line 214, in cosmos
    xmldoc = minidom.parseString(rawdata)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", 
    line 1605, in parseString
    return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
, in parseString
    return builder.parseString(string)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", 
    line 187, in parseString
    parser = self.getParser()
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", 
    line 119, in getParser
    self._parser = self.createParser()
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", 
    line 734, in createParser
    parser.namespace_prefixes = True
AttributeError: namespace_prefixes

OS X users, don't be discouraged by the mention of there being no MacPython version yet or daunted by the task of compiling it from source -- MacP ython 2.3 lives and is just a few glorious GUI installer clicks away.

PHP Everywhere: Python vs. PHP?

PHP Everywhere: Python vs. PHP? 03/30/2005 09:12 AM
From PHP Everywhere today:

Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search

Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search 05/11/2004 09:24 AM
Yahoo! May 11 2004 2:11PM GMT

Python IRC library 0.4.1

Python IRC library 0.4.1 10/30/2003 04:58 AM
A Python IRC library.

Re: Possible windows+python bug

Re: Possible windows+python bug 03/22/2005 06:53 PM
azurIt (Mar 22 2005)

Optimising Python

Optimising Python 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

Some great tips for optimising Python, courtesy of Ian Bicking:

• Kata 19: an optimization anecdote demonstrates some neat techniques including use of the gc module to fine tune garbage collection.
• Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote mainly uses functional programming techniques and the array module.
• An Optimization Anecdote from Fredrik Lundh teaches us that the more time is spent by Python in pure C routines, the faster code will run (note that this does not necessarily imply rewriting Python code in C).
• Python Performance Tips from 1996, most of which look like they are still valid.
• Python optimization tips, which seem to be a bit more up to date.

Movable Python

Movable Python 12/31/2004 10:57 AM
Pre-release Available

Python on Panther

Python on Panther 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Mac DevCenter has an interesting article on using Python with Panther (I wonder who’d win out of those two…), with particular focus on the CoreGraphics library of image manipulation tools. This is an interesting alternative to the PHP/ImageMagick combination which I currently employ on this site.

Nokia Python

Nokia Python 12/24/2004 12:47 PM

Feet Up!

More Nokia Python

It looks like people haven’t been slow to get using Nokia’s Python project, and Matt Croydon has been collating projects and news on his Pyth on for Series 60 wiki page.

Seeing as there’s no central clearing house(other than Forum Nokia) for Nokia Python projects right now, I reckon this is as good a focal point as any.

The official public release of Python on Series 60 just came out on the 22nd of December. You can get it on Forum Nokia site. Comment - TrackBack

Possible windows+python bug

Possible windows+python bug 03/22/2005 05:13 PM
liquid_at_cyberspace.org (Mar 22 2005)

Technologists Plus Social Scientists Equals What?

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