Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
I don't know enough Python or C to comment on
Michael Salib's work
(except to say that the name
Starkiller
makes me think someone needs to stop drinking from the Michael Moorcock well) but he is one of the funniest speakers I've seen in a long time.
On the subject of whipping boys : everybody needs one (or two , even) but please let the Python crowd get a grip when it comes to Perl. All the complaints you hear leveled about the language are true — except when they're not. The bitterness and scorn that people spew borders on the irrational and displays the kind of disconnect with reality that makes it hard to take Python boosters seriously.
Perl has been around for a long time, kicked some serious ass, isn't going away any time soon and managed to
solve
a whole bunch of problems that the Python crowd still seem to be coming to grips with. Based on my three days at Pycon these include testing (if ever the Python kids needed to follow their maxim about there only being one way of doing it, this is it), packaging distributions (there's one way of doing it and about fourteen caveats), distributing packages (port the source, Luke) and, dare I say it,
grassroots conferences
.
And I understand that
${squiggly}
is a nuisance but if that's the first thing that comes to Guido's mind when he wants to pick on Perl, I hereby offer of write and maintain a
PerlIO::via::useEnglish
package in the hopes that we can move on to more substantial grievances.
Seeing code samples that say things like
types.TypeType
,
meta.MetaMeta
and some ridiculously convoluted use of underbar-soup, all in the same day and all in the name of doing the Right Thing, doesn't exactly help either.
Python is cool. Lots of really cool stuff is written in Python. There are even more cool apps that
should
be written in Python. But if people thought of Python as just
another way of doing it
the world might not seem like such a ugly and incomprehensible place.
This page will hold information about how to compare several XML documents with each other using XSLT and give information about their differences.
oh yeah, that's how you do itvalue) but I'm sure people can make good use of it by pairing it up with their RSS aggregator and the W3C's public XSLT server .
I have no idea what that last sentence is supposed to mean in the context of the one that came before it unless it's just the Times slagging MSNBC. I include it only for the sake of thoroughness.Even as American officials were preparing to install an interim government in Iraq, the hoisting of the American flag over the statue's face was a brief but powerful reminder that unlike the Soviet empire, Iraq's regime did not implode from within. A closer historical analogy could have been the photograph of a Red Army soldier raising the Soviet flag over a bombed-out Reichstag in 1945.
That iconic picture by the Russian photographer Yevgeny Khaldei was carefully planned and posed. In Baghdad, the Stars and Stripes were hurriedly pulled down and replaced with a pre-gulf-war Iraqi flag, tucked into a chain around the statue's neck like a large dinner napkin. As one commentator on MSNBC said, "It looks like cooler geopolitical heads have prevailed."
me : huh? why can't I have multiple language elements in the channel?
him : because you can't
me : that's kind of dumb. some of us speak, and blog, in more than one language
him : add a language element to you item element
me : but the point is a) to be able to identify all the languages that
the document uses and b) you can already do this is in rss 0.91
(though I'll be damned if I can find the webpage(s) where this was
discussed now)
him : you're screwed then
I am feeling pretty prickly today so I am having trouble deciding if this is just staggeringly arrogant or myopic. Because, you know, it would fuck up all the description frameworks to have more than one shade of grey. I think, tonight, I will redirect every single RSS feed involved with aaronland
over here
.
Proponent \Pro*po"nent\, n. 1. One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition. --Dryden. 2. (Law) The propounder of a thing. web1913
proponent n : a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: {advocate}, {advocator}, {exponent}] wn
Opportune \Op`por*tune"\, v. t. To suit. [Obs.] --Dr. Clerke(1637). web1913
opportune adj 1: suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose; "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival" [ant: {inopportune}] 2: at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests" [syn: {favorable}, {favourable}] wn
Sesquipedal \Ses*quip"e*dal\, Sesquipedalian \Ses`qui*pe*da"li*an\, a. [Sesqui- + pedal: cf. F. sesquip['e]dal, L. sesquipedalis.] Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words. web1913
sesquipedalian adj 1: given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipecalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money" 2: (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables; "sesquipedalian technical terms" [syn: {polysyllabic}] n : a very long word (a foot and a half long) [syn: {sesquipedalia}] wn
Peccadillo \Pec`ca*dil"lo\, n.; pl. {Peccadillos}. [Sp. pecadillo, dim. of pecado a sin, fr. L. peccatum. See {Peccant}.] A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. --Sir W. Scott. web1913
peccadillo n : a petty misdeed [syn: {indiscretion}] wn
Detritus \De*tri"tus\, n. [F. d['e]tritus, fr. L. detritus, p. p. of deterere. See {Detriment}.] 1. (Geol.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus. Note: For large portions, the word d['e]bris is used. 2. Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration. The mass of detritus of which modern languages are composed. --Farrar. web1913
detritus n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: {debris}, {dust}, {junk}, {rubble}] 2: loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks wn
<xsl:copy-of select = "transform(document($xml),document($xsl))" />Then it occurred to that you might be able to do the same thing like this (untested) :
<xsl:for-each select = "/xpath/to/some/xref[@style != '']"> <xsl:variable name = "style" select = "@style" /> <xsl:include href = "$style" /> </xsl:for-each> ... <!-- would really be a choose... --> <xsl:if test = "@style"> <xsl:apply-templates> <xsl:apply-templates select="document($uri)/$xpath"/> </xsl:apply-template> </xsl:if>So now I'm wondering if I really need to add an
include
element to the DTD...
Sinecure \Si"ne*cure\, v. t. To put or place in a sinecure. web1913
sinecure n 1: a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached 2: an office that involves minimal duties wn
Traduce \Tra*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Traduced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Traducing}.] [L. traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See {Duke}.] 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] --Glanvill. 2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] --Golden Boke. 3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.] From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. --Sir M. Hale. 4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. --Beau. & Fl. 5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] --Bacon. 6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. --Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. --Dryden. Syn: To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander. web1913
traduce v : speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere" [syn: {badmouth}, {malign}, {drag through the mud}] wn
Short for "battle buddy," another soldier who is by your side and guarding your back. Also a friend who helps you out when needed.
ex. Thanks for stalling her while I got away, battle. I don't know what I'd have done if I'd seen that psycho again.see also : battle dict-ified
<%radio.macros.viewWeblog ()%>
. These are what
generate the HTML
sent to a remote www server. What I am about to say next may be premature. I haven't had a chance to really dig through the code to see what's going on here. If Radio is doing some kind of checking/untainting on the string value of the macro directive then everything I am about to say should be moot. If, however, Radio is simply
eval
-ing the macro it raises an enormous red flag. It means that all a bad person needs to do is fire up a copy of NotePad and change one of the files in the
www
directory to contain a new
<% do.something.bad () %>
macro which would be run the next time you sync your blog with a remote server. Just in case you ever thought that your sysadmin was being grumpy and cranky or just generally contrary simply out of spite.
Countervail \Coun"ter*vail`\ (koun"t?r-v?l`), n. Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital. [Obs.] Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review. --South. web1913
countervail v 1: compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals" [syn: {offset}] 2: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" [syn: {counteract}, {neutralize}, {counterbalance}] wn
Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See {Discourse}, and cf. {Discoursive}.] 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. ``Discursive notices.'' --De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n. web1913
discursive adj 1: (philosophy) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition [syn: {dianoetic}] 2: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: {digressive}, {excursive}, {rambling}] wn
sub foo : WebService { }
And have foo automatically become a web service? Yeah, I thought so too :-) So I've written Attribute::WebService. I'll stick it on CPAN this week, though it's pretty raw right now. It also hacks into the internals of SOAP::Lite, because the public API wasn't complete enough. It also by default implements it's own httpd using HTTP::Daemon, which is probably a pretty inefficient way to do things. However I *think* I've made it overridable so that you could implement Attribute::WebService::Apache and have it work via mod_perl."
You'll have to scroll down for this because I can't figure out how use.perl/slash2 does permalinks and I have better things to waste my time on...
Or
I enjoyed Pycon. I would have prefered longer, and more technical, sessions but this seems to be a problem endemic to most conferences and not this one in particular.
There were, according to my unscientific count, about 50-million more women and high-school kids in attendance at Pycon compared to similar conferences I've attended. Whether that speaks to the language or the conference, good on ya!
Generators look pretty slick despite their also looking suspiciously like syntactic sugar for automagically DWIM -ing with subroutine references. That's not a complaint, just an observation based on what was a misunderstanding of Python culture.