Consilience UML Chart
In case anyone’s curious, this is the UML chart with WAE I churned out for my To-Do manager. The model is pretty simple: Users have Lists, Lists (called “Documents”) have Tasks, Tasks have DoneDates. Task properties include a minimal number of days that a task can [...]

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A few weeks ago, much was made of John McCain’s astroturf campaign, the one in which he and his website provide boilerplate comments for his supporters to post to other forums and websites. That was annoying enough, but when I checked it out I saw something else that, from a professional standapoint, annoyed me [...]

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Last week, I had an opportunity to revamp one of my other blogs, and I updated it to a full Wordpress site with all the bells and whistles. One of the things I wanted to do was include a separate database for my published works, so I could list off what had been published [...]

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Thanks to an unnamed submitter (whose email bounced when I tried to thank him), ThinkSaber (available only in the subversion version for the moment) now also detects the presence of the Apple Motion Controller chip and will use that device if it’s available through PyGame.
Yes, ThinkSaber now works on Linux Macs.

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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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