Python and IDE's

Jonathan Ellis has a short run down of Utah Python User group where they talked about IDE's and Python.

He points to a nice write up of the Emacs and Python presentation here.

The write up for the *other* editor is here. :->

failed harddrives

I'm seeing more and more hard drive failures all around. I'm hearing clicking noises from one of my hard drives too. Thankfully I have everything replicated on multiple machines so I don't have to go running to backup.

It was amusing to see two tweets back to back about hard drive failures:

Anybody else seeing hard drive problems? Is it the season for hard drive FAIL?

Python and Unicode

Good presentation here on Python and Unicode.

The most important slide for me says:

s.decode(encoding)
     * <type 'str'> to <type 'unicode'>

u.encode(encoding)
     * <type 'unicode'> to <type 'str'>

Cocoahead videos

 

Debugging with Xcode

Two cool videos from cocoahead. Debugging with Xcode embedded above, and UI Design Essentials which can be downloaded from Scott Stevenson's site.

via theocacao.com

Mozilla, Acid3 and Mark

I'd been waiting for someone more influential than me to comment on the Acid3 test situation. Looks like Mark Pilgrim stepped up...

twhirl memory usage

I've had twhirl running for a while, and the twhirl memory usage is really growing:

Restarting the application brings the memory usage down:

How FreeBSD Project works

via Google video

twhirl adds friendfeed support

I missed this somehow, but twhirl integrates support for friendfeed:

I like twhirl, it seems more stable than alertthingy for now.

warcrafting

I love this game! :)

hardy

Just finished installing hardy heron, and the first thing I notice is Firefox 3 Beta 5 as the default browser.

Servers are under quite a load, so apt-get install build-essential is stuck at 0%.