Jim Hugunin has posted a paper on IronPython, a fast Python implementation for .NET. This has triggered a cascade of posts.

The money quote: "[A]s I carried out my experiments I found the CLR to be a surprisingly good target for dynamic languages...."

More: "High system performance is the …

No, not really. That's just April 1st shorthand for my point.

Peter suggests an interactive drawing tutor as a great application for the TabletPC, a more dignified concept than my "Draw Draw Revolution" game. He suggests text and a voice-over, simple animation, some way of evaluating the learner's input, etc …

P.J. Plauger was awarded Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award. He richly deserves it. There's his tremendous contribution to the C and C++ standardization projects, but I personally feel that his Programming on Purpose column for Computer Language was simply the best programming column ever written. It's the reason …

I receive a lot of press releases via email. Here's a note to PR people: I'm probably not the only writer/editor in the world who doesn't casually open Word documents sent via email. I know that you write the press releases in Word and it makes them look prettier …

Argh! I am writing an article for publication and need some eye-candy for the application. I was going to use my Amazon product-similarity graphing tool but I just realized that I use C# 2.0 generics throughout! The thought of bowdlerizing it to use object-based collections is ... just ... repugnant. But …

Someone's posted the whole of June, 1938's Action Comics #1 (including the first funnybook appearance of Superman) to the web as a series of medium-resolution scans. Link (Thanks, Eyes Spies and Lies!)) via [Boing Boing]

BZ Media, the clever folk who publish SD Times, have just announced a new conference dedicated to embedded software development. Sayeth the release: "The Embedded Software Development Conference (ESDC) is the only independent, cross-platform conference completely focused on the educational needs of embedded, mobile and wireless developers. The event will …

I uninstalled XPSP2, uninstalled the Lonestar alpha, reinstalled XPSP2 and my TIP came back. Amusingly, I found this by Googling a discussion board from a few months ago where the person asking the question was breaking NDA and a Microsoft representative was very politely, but very insistently, posting "This isn't …

Any other Tablet PC users lose access to the TIP after installing XPSP2? I've already filed a report with Microsoft. I don't even see the keyboard TIP during user login.

Today, during my 692nd hour SCUBA diving, my life was jeopardized by a computer malfunction. I was trying out a new piece of equipment, an air-integrated diving computer, that replaces a "conventional" dive computer (used to track safety relating to "the bends") and two analog devices: the depth gauge and …