August 2009
77 posts
Die in a Fire! →
Being part of a bigger idea →
Since I read the comment from Statik in the post I talked about the port to CouchDb of macaco-contacts I have been working to try and align by serialization to that proposed by the desktopcouch…
D. B. Cooper →
bestofwikipedia:
D. B. Cooper is the name attributed to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States on November 24, 1971, received US$200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the plane. The name he used to board the plane was Dan Cooper, but through a later press miscommunication, he became known as “D. B. Cooper”. Despite hundreds of leads through the years, no conclusive...
PythonRecipes/DebianPackage - Community Ubuntu... →
Watchicodeforlove:
new iPhone commercial ^_^
Download details: Improving .NET Application... →
Crazy Geek →
Hell In A Handbag
Bookstore | Maastricht, The Netherlands
Clerk: “That will be 17.50, please.”
Customer: “Are you a Christian, dear?”
Clerk: “Why do you ask?”
Customer: “Are you?”
Clerk: “Well, no. Why do you want to know?”
Customer: “Oh. I would like to be helped by someone else, please.”
Manager: “Good morning ma’am, I hear you’ve been having a problem with the clerk?”
Customer: “Oh, she didn’t make any trouble, it’s just that I don’t want my money to be handled by someone not of the faith. You should be careful, she’ll probably nick from the till when you’re not looking.”
Manager: “You’re right, ma’am, I shall definitely have to reprimand her.”
Clerk: *surprised* “What for?”
Manager: “For failing to notice that the lady was not planning on paying for the three Mars bars and the map of Europe she must have put in her bag while you were fetching me.”
(The customer freezes for a second, then looks at her bag.)
Customer: “Good heavens! I must’ve been so distracted I didn’t even notice the devil putting them there!”
Godwin's Law 2.0 →
langer:
By now we’re probably all familiar with Godwin’s Law, but for those of us who aren’t, it’s an old internet adage which states: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
Godwin’s Law can be easily reformulated for the advanced text styling of the World Wide Web, as a similar degradation of quality is evidenced in both...
Working on Companies UI →
I recently talked about one of my favorite features in macaco-contacts. Companies is clearly one of those things I have added in the application that I consider to improve Apples’ address book….
mirrors.pdf (application/pdf Object) →
WatchiPhone app UI design!
Chain Reaction →
Net Events - L'agenda de vos sorties en Belgique -... →
The port to CouchDB has been done! →
After some serious work I have finally managed to port the core code to use CouchDB as its storage back-end rather than SQLite + SQLAlchemy. Although the process has not been strictly complicated…
Documentation is up for macaco-contacts! →
I finally found the time to generate all the different code documentation of all the software that has been written so far. As usual you can find the documentation in the web-page of the project….
“I’ve abandoned the “don’t use tables for layout” meme....”
– Guido van Rossum gvanrossum via twitter. I love Python, but I do not think I agree with the statement.
Nokia releases official Python-Qt bindings →
Seems Nokia have released official Python-Qt bindings, called PySide, which are LGPL’d. Apparently Nokie tried to talk with RiverBank regarding PyQt but they could not reach any agreement….
Tricky Question
1. static void Main(string[] args)
2.{
3. object x = null;
4. object y = (short)4;
5. x = (y is System.Int32) ? (System.Int32)y : (System.Int16)y;
6. Console.WriteLine(x.GetType());
7.}
What is printed out?
Try it.
Explain why you were wrong.
Read here why. Really nice article.
WTF?!
Dude: How do you feel being Finish?
Dude: Do people look at you?
Dude: I mean, because you are Finish....
Jussi: WTF?!
I'm amazed by people... If you change Finish for anything else, is probably one of the racist things I have heard....