At a party Saturday night, I carried on while doing an impersonation of Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Hopefully, no amount of alcohol will ever drown the shame and this will never ever happen again.

At PyCon, Microsoft demoed Django running on IronPython. This blog post detailing the code says "not quite complete but ... [good enough to] get Django's tutorial running." From a language geek standpoint, I prefer Ruby (those object-oriented grooves run deep), but IronPython is very clearly on the cusp of adulthood.

In …

You see what looks like a bag of trash near your driveway and it turns out that someone pulled in, dressed the boar they'd caught, and left the carcass for you to haul to the dump. In a bag, at least.

StartKey will be a technology that allows you to carry your Windows logon around on a USB keychain. Early reaction is mixed as to the value of this, but I loved something similar when I worked for a company developing software for Sun JavaStation network computers.

With JavaStation's, you had …

Unbe-freakin'-lievable. The client who screwed me back in October called and, sure enough, gave me an assignment for an article that, just as I predicted, they now needed ASAP. Because I was hopeful that this would allow my context-sensitive image-resizing code to see the light of day, I agreed, working …

Tor.com is giving away eBooks of apparently-well-known authors. It's been a long time since I've followed SF, but "free eBook + Kindle" is too good to pass up. So far, I've received:

• Old Man's War by John Scalzi -- I'm reading this now; it's kind of like an updated Starship Troopers …

Ted Leung has joined Sun to help support Python "in a similar fashion" to the JRuby project.

This is not just about Python on on the JVM. Sun will try to make its platforms, OpenSolaris and the JVM, the best place to develop and deploy Python applications.

But it's mostly …

Put down your pencils...

Let's assume you're a pretty good programmer (and good looking to boot!). It's Monday morning and you're looking at a task that has some solid complexity to it -- it's going to take you 40 hours of effort to get through. Or you have the option of delegating components to 2 …

Philip Greenspun

Governments at various levels have decided that they have to bail out people who spent more than the houses turned out to be worth and the financial companies who weren't wise enough to notice that the U.S. is in fact not short of forests that can be …