the occasional occurrence

I am doing a little “pleasure reading” on Erlang tonight. I thought this was an interesting thing to say about variables:

Variables can only be bound once! The value of a variable can never be changed once it has been set (bound).

Doesn’t that make them constants, and not variables?
cw

So an article about user interfaces on Coding Horror prompted me to say a short piece about Ion*.
When doing serious work on the computer, I always find myself tiling my windows. Overlapping windows are so annoying. And tiling them in an organized manner is even more annoying.
From the article:
Manipulating windows is pure excise– [...]

I think that this blog entry at Coding Horror pretty much nails why I enjoy programming.
At my previous job we took this personality test of sorts called StrengthsFinder that is supposed to help reveal your top 5 strengths. I took it twice and while some of the results varied, I had Learner in my [...]

Inspired by wsgicollection, I cooked up a collection implementation for CherryPy 2.2.x. Here is the docstring for the base Collection class:

A class representing a collection of items.

Items can be created, updated, viewed, listed and deleted. Dispatches
based on HTTP method and URL [...]

Anyone who reads Wired magazine and is following the new “the-chosen-one-python-web-framework” saga should find this little bit familiar. Here is my (tongue-in-cheek) take on the current state of Python web dev…

Wired: WWGD
Tired: WSGI
Expired: CGI

In case you missed it, WWGD == ‘What Would Guido Do?’

If you are reading this, it means I successfully migrated dowski.com to my new server.
The whole server conversion wasn’t too painful. I got my new VPS (Virtual Private Server) from VPSLand last Friday. I only had a few OS choices, none of them being Slackware, so I went with Debian (my other choices [...]

Be prepared for some downtime at dowski.com. I am going to be switching OS, servers, networks, DNS, etc. in the next few days. Hopefully it won’t be too painful
cw

You can make some neat navigation buttons and menus for your website by adding a sprinkle of CSS to HTML lists. Thanks to the info on that page, the main navigation buttons on www.dowski.com are a styled HTML list.
cw

I have been wanting to update the look of my series of sites for a while. The revamp has begun with my home page.
Now I just need to integrate the look into my projects site and this here blog.
*Edit*
The blog is coming along…
cw

So I’m teaching my class the basics of HTML and making a web page. We only have two days to cover the basics, so stuff like CSS, Javascript, etc. are pretty much out. I still want to help them understand what a good page/site looks like though, and that is getting harder to [...]