After fighting with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 for months to get WIFI working, I finally found a Dell driver [0] that worked on my HP laptop through ndiswrapper [1].
A few hours later with success claimed, I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, assuming I had conquered all possible obstacles and that anything in the future [...]
I stumbled across “Dammit I’m Mad” by Demetri Martin, a rumored-to-be 224 word palindrome poem.
I was impressed, but needed to check the accuracy of such a statement. So I dialed up a python session.
import re
awesomedrome = """Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed [...]
Although I’ve been enamored with Python for the last 13 or so months, I’ve often dreamt longingly for days of Java glory. Things from the past seem so desirable at times — IDEs with good code completion and integrated debugging, staticly-typed compiler hand-holding, mature application servers and deployment tools. There was never much [...]
I’m going to PyCon 2009! I’ll be there with a few other guys from work. We’re flying in Wednesday night, taking a tutorial on Thursday, and trying to have a little fun throughout the weekend.
If you’re like me, you’ve got a few friends on Twitter, but most others are hesitant to make the jump. Hell, I had a hard enough time convincing them (and myself really) to join Facebook. So what fun would it be if there weren’t any drunk pictures floating around, but rather just a [...]
I never really gave Fiddler all the credit it was due. I guess I should have read the homepage:
Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
I had previously only used it as a session inspector — to review requests and responses as they occurred in the wild. [...]
