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Monthly Archives: November 2005

Come non scrivere un tutorial (parte seconda)

In relazione a questo post: Come non scrivere un tutorial, l’autore del tutorial incriminato ha deciso di rispondere (giustamente) punto per punto alle mie critiche in questo post: http://michele.sciabarra.com/page/Commento_alla_critica_al_Corso_Python2

Ritengo che come sempre si tratti di opinioni (in questo caso le sue) e mi limito a fare alcuni appunti:

Mi spiace che il mio tono sia giunto come [...]

Rebbin SVN

The svn version of Rebbin now supports SQLite 3, lighttpd and runs on top of Rails 0.14.3. Try it out!

Rebbin 0.8

I released another version with some improvements and few bugfixes

What’s new?

Atom 1.0 feed (in addition to RSS2.0 and Atom0.3 already there) Wordwrap for text-only snippets Basic comment support for each paste Use Rails caching system and custom caching for colourised snippets

What’s changed?

Wants Highlight 2.4 BSD licensed

What about the future?

I set aside the idea to write a ruby lexer for [...]

Hype, the Python Indexer

Yesterday I tried hype, a Python indexer wrapped upon hyperestraier. The API is stupid proof, you can’t do something wrong The cose used to test it is mainly:

[code lang="python"] def index(root="."): db = hype.Database(DB_PATH)

for name in all_files(root): doc = hype.Document() doc["@uri"] = name [...]

Come non scrivere un tutorial

Pay attention: the post is in italian because it’s about a tutorial written in this language. So skip if you cannot read

Ho scritto un articolo su come non scrivere un tutorial basandomi su un tutorial che personalmente trovo pessimo, questo è il link: Qualità dei tutorial in Python

Microsoft fires OpenGL

It seems that MS is going to kill OpenGL support on its future platform (codenamed Vista). Don’t wanna make advocacy but in my opinion it’s not a technical reason and it will help to kill 3D graphics interoperability and put obstacles to the rise of Linux as a gaming platform. Not too much to say, [...]

Waiting for the TwistedMatrix Book

I just ordered the Twisted Network Programming Essentials book! Wow I already know that it’s great stuff.