http://inre.dundeemt.com In Regards to: (Because some things just can't go unsaid) Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:52:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en InRe: Jason Chen on why the netbook market is dead in three years | T3 magazineJason's reasons for netbook's demise, underpowered for Windows and underoutfitted for Windows, while true to a degree, are not going to be the reasons for any so called demise of the netbook market.  What he ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-11-23/obituary-for-netbooks-off-the-mark/ An interesting thing happened on my way to the web today. While reading through my rss feeds, I came across a story about CrossOver doing a Proof of Concept port of Chromium to CX. Interesting since the mighty "g" can't seem to get it together for Linux. ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-09-15/crossover-chromium-vs-firefox-3-javascript-performance-results-2/ App Engine is a pretty dramatic thought departure for lots of programmers who are used to writing an app that runs on a single server and access a single database.  Case in point, there has been a recurring topic of auto-increment fields on the  App Engine list -- people trying ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-04-27/google-app-engine-auto-increment-vs-uuids/ Noah Gift over on O'Reilly OnLamp Blog has an article on building a greedy coin changer. That is, given a value, say 71 cents, calculate the fewest coins needed to make the amount. He had listed a number of solutions, but I felt I could do it a bit ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-04-26/greedy-coin-changer/ Now this is truly an interesting development. Google's just announced App Engine is sure to super-charge the Python community and convert a number of disillusioned developers of other languages in to Pythonistas. There have been lots of interesting comments floating in the blogosphere about what ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-04-08/google-app-engine-runs-on-python/ Grig has an interesting post today about enforcing checklists via nose, Agile Testing: Joel on checklists  Now that is an interesting idea.  I do lots of PCI compliance testing and documenting the tests and procedures is par for the course.  Automating those procedures goes a long way in helping ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-01-22/automating-checklists-with-nose/ There is a great article over on SnapLogic,  SnapLogic Blog » Squishy design with Python: Designing in codeThe gist of the article is that when developing APIs are never as complete as we want them when we are developing a new system and if you are using a static language ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-01-22/acknowledging-the-elephant-in-development/ There is an interesting write up on plugin architecture -- g :: A Simple Plugin FrameworkA project that I'm working on is going to require a plugin framework for a number of things: Logic, Data Storage, Reporting and I've been keeping my eyes open for papers/articles on plugin frameworks.  Do you know ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-01-22/plugin-frameworkarchitecture/ ScribeFire has been installed again.  After a tumultuous summer, fitful fall we are in to the Winter.  Time to get back on the post wagon.  There will be more to follow now.Powered by ScribeFire. http://inre.dundeemt.com/2008-01-21/more-blogging-faster/ Who would have guessed that MS would be the first to really put python in the browser? I know you can jump through hoops to make a browser support python but it was not something you could do for a public website.There have been a bunch of announcements in the ... http://inre.dundeemt.com/2007-05-01/python-in-the-browser-brought-to-you-by-microsoft/