Posted in Code, python on Sep 25th, 2006 1 Comment »
Saw this easy way to reverse a string in python today, over at Answer My Searches
Here’s how to do it:
exampleString = ‘Hey there fancy pants’
reversedString = exampleString[::-1]
print reversedString
>> stnap ycnaf ereht yeH
This works because a String is a sequence type in python and you can apply all the ’slicing’ syntax you want to it. So [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Let me know if anything seems amiss with the site. I think I’ve lost all my comments for previous posts, but they weren’t very insightful anyway
Posted in Musings on Sep 13th, 2006 No Comments »
I highly recommend giving this podcast a listen. It’s by Sam Harris author of a book entitled ‘The End of Faith’.
Also if you haven’t checked out this site before ITConversations is a great resource to hear people talking about all kinds of interesting things. Everything from Web-development to Robots to Insects to Medicine to more. [...]
Posted in ranting on Sep 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
You know by now I would have thought that apple would stop putting that stupid quicktime icon in my system tray every time I install itunes.
But no.
Its still there and I still have to get rid of it. Everytime. Thats my space not yours. Stay out of it. How many more angry blog posts must [...]
Posted in Musings on Sep 8th, 2006 No Comments »
From Tim Brays blog. Jruby Love
In the midst of laying off like a billion people Sun is at the same time hiring some new people to bring the Dynamic Ruby language into the fold. This is pretty exciting news for the Ruby community.
So the IronPython project has Microsofts backing and JRuby now has Suns [...]
Posted in Technical on Sep 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Congratulations are in order to Jim Hugunin and the rest of the IronPython team over at Microsoft.
You can download it from here if you like.
IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language that runs on top of the .Net CLR which may not mean much to some of you, but is in fact [...]