Aurynn Shaw has a very nice piece about the problem of contempt culture in software developer communities and I recommend reading it if you haven’t already.
In a contempt culture everything else sucks. The programming languages, frameworks, and software tools other than the ones you and your worker hive have chosen are nothing more than great big festering piles of dung. And the misguided souls who have made the embarrassing mistake of using those disgraced technologies are fools and morons for having done so. You and yours, by contrast, offer a little circle of knowing enlightenment, a smugly shining beacon of hope and technological progress in an otherwise dark world.
Wordpress made a nice summary of my blog activity for 2011. It’s pretty much all Twisted, all the time. Then it goes on to suggest I should write more posts like that! I guess I should take the hint.
To those who have been waiting for a reply to posts on the Twisted Introduction, sorry for the long wait. My gmail spam filters suddenly turned extra aggressive recently, and my email notifications have been getting lost. Hopefully I’ve got this straightened out.
If you’re interested in a PDF version of the Twisted Introduction posts, there is now a joliprint link at the end of every post. I’m trying out this service, which creates a PDF from a web page on the fly. The results seem a bit mixed with the images, but maybe it’s useful.
This concludes the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here.
All Done
Whew! Thank you for sticking with me. When I started this series I didn’t realize it was going to be this long, or take this much time to make. But I have enjoyed creating it and hope you have enjoyed reading it.
Now that I have finished, I will look into the possibility of generating a PDF format. No promises, though.