Rather Than Post-Christmas Sales, Make A Donation

I've not yet found any links specific to the disaster that's struck around the Indian Ocean, but here is the link to the Red Cross' individual donation page: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Forms/webforms.nsf/F_DON?OpenForm&ParentUNID=BA9B14845AF1638FC1256E2B00394093&action=Operations%20most%20in%20need

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Pynk: Programming the Tablet PC With Python article online

My first article on Pynk, my experimental Python IDE, is up on DevX http://www.devx.com/TabletPC/Article/26666.  The preliminary version of Pynk is available for download and can be used to work interactively with IronPython on the Tablet PC.

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Cleaning a Tablet

What do you clean your Tablet screen with? I have been going with a water-dampened microfiber cloth but as part of my end-of-the-year cleaning spree, I was thinking of going a little stronger. There are no computer stores on the Big Island, so anything I buy gets about a \$10 …

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A Judge Isn't Sure Spam Is Deceptive

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[You can never be sure that a news …

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Guido Contemplates Adding Optional Static Typing to Python

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Optional static typing has long been requested as a Python feature. It's been studied in depth before (e.g. on the type-sig) but has proven too hard for even a PEP to appear. In this post I'm putting together my latest thoughts on some issues, without necessarily hoping to …

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Enabling JavaScript Debugging With Visual Studio

Ah. Within Internet Explorer, you go to "Tools | Internet Options | Advanced" and clear the checkbox for "Disable script debugging." Then, within your JavaScript, you add the statement "debugging;" to activate a breakpoint. This should help things considerably...

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ASP.Net, tag, and Viewstate

I'm stumped. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate a pointer.

In an ASP.NET page, I'm embedding a Windows Forms control by use of an \<object> tag. My challenge is getting the state of the embedded object during postback, and maintaining / restoring the object after postback. Since the object …

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Unleash the mimes!

Forget the death penalty – if you want to alter people's behavior, sic a mime on them:

Another innovative idea was to use mimes to improve both traffic and citizens' behavior. Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked …

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When Self-Selecting Polls Attack

Sys-Con is running  a poll on “The Top 20 Software People In The World” which is silly but harmless. The funny thing though is that Don Ferguson, head of IBM's Software Group Architecture Board, has garnered more than 3300 votes so far. Oh, okay, so how many does, say, Alan …

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Happy Solstice!

I'm so happy to have moved somewhere where I don't get winter blues...

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