Until circumstances change, this will just be the most horrible geek tease you can imagine.
At the office, we have exactly three approved programming languanges: C for performance, Python for everything else, and a begrudging tolerance for ECMA-262 for the WebUI team and site design. (Although the docs deployment people get away with PHP, which [...]

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I was working today on my storyengine / storykeeper / narrator codebase when I hit a snag. Storyengine converts text to XML and embeds in into a database. Storykeeper is a little rails program that I use to make sure all my keywords and so forth are set up correctly. And narrator [...]

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I know there are people out there who love the way Ruby does some things, but there’s one feature of Ruby that drives me nuts, mostly because it doesn’t do things The One True Way of Python. And that’s call by reference.
In Python, everything is a reference. Let’s say you have some methods, and [...]

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I spent most of today working on my story website. It’s a pain in the neck to maintain, especially in updates, and it needs more smarts. A lot more smarts. I decided to see how much lifting it would take to get all of my stories, regardless of series or arc, into a [...]

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