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A damn fine mystery novel.

Dec 31st, 2009 | Filed under Books

Funny and gentle.

Dec 30th, 2009 | Filed under Books

Crossed lives in WWII-era London, pretty good stuff.

Dec 28th, 2009 | Filed under Books

A very short skim through philosophy,  illustrated with jokes. Funnier than it sounds.

Dec 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Books

Part 10: Poetry Transformed This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. Client 5.0 Now we’re going to add some transformation logic to our poetry client, along the lines suggested in Part 9. But first, I have a shameful and humbling confession to make: I don’t know [...]

Dec 11th, 2009 | Filed under Blather, Programming, Python, Software

Love him or hate him, the dude can write a sentence. Personally, I’m in the love camp.

Dec 5th, 2009 | Filed under Books

Part 9: A Second Interlude, Deferred This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. More Consequence of Callbacks We’re going to pause for a moment to think about callbacks again. Although we now know enough about deferreds to write simple asynchronous programs in the Twisted style, the [...]

Dec 5th, 2009 | Filed under Blather, Programming, Python, Software